Laughable melodrama

Rating: 1/10 (23 February 2003)

Yet another highly praised "hard hitting" film that turns out to be quite frankly rubbish. Clever editing can't disguise the fact that this turns out to be little more than "Reefer Madness" in fashionable clothes. As inaccurate about the drug milieu as it is about psychiatry (ECT is done on anaethetized subjects - but obviously that does not film as well). Abysmally written and acted - Ellen Burstyns performance is straight out of a 40's b-movie. Immature and flashy - which probably explains the quite ridiculous IMDB grading.