Important message,weak movie

Rating: 7/10 (4 February 2001)

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The message of the film is that addiction is bad and can lead to your destruction and it doesn't matter if you are addicted to prescription drugs or to illegal ones. This is an important message and the way to the destruction is conveyed in a very impressive way. You first get a glimpse at the "good side" of the heroes addiction and afterwards you watch them on their way to hell. But the characters remain one dimensional and at the end of the film you don't know more than you knew about them in the beginning of the film and the fact that they are basically pursuing their dream is not enough to explain their motivations and actions. Ellen Burstyn carry the film on her shoulders and do her best with what she got in the first place,which is not much.
An important message is been carried by a weak film.