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MOVIES ABOUT DRUGS
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A police Lieutenant goes about his daily tasks of investigating homicides, but is more interested in pursuing his vices. He has accumulated a massive debt betting on baseball, and he keeps doubling to try to recover. His bookies are beginning to get agitated. The Lieutenant does copious amounts of drugs, cavorts with prostitutes, and uses his status to take advantage of teenage girls. While investigating a nun's rape, he begins to reflect on his lifestyle. |
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A boy named George Jung grows up in a struggling family in the 1950's. His mother nags at her husband as he is trying to make a living for the family. It is finally revealed that George's father cannot make a living and the family goes bankrupt. George does not want the same thing to happen to him, and his friend Tuna, in the 1960's, suggests that he deal marijuana. He is a big hit in California in the 1960's, yet he goes to jail, where he finds out about the wonders of cocaine. As a result, when released, he gets rich by bringing cocaine to America. However, he soon pays the price. |
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Outstanding movie filled with a ton of great actors doing some of their best work. The story of the 70's porn industry is really interesting as it follows the rise and fall of Dirk Diggler. This film may not appeal to everyone as it examines the drugs and wild sex of the industry and the time period in general, but it is a very good character study. It also gets high marks for an outstanding soundtrack. Make sure you get the special edition version for all the great extras. |
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Michael J. Fox plays the most sympathetic cocaine addict you've ever seen in the movie of Jay McInerney's popular novel Bright Lights, Big City, the book that famously chronicled the coke- and cash-fueled era of the 1980s. Jamie Conway (Fox) works as a fact-checker for a major New York magazine, but because he spends his nights partying with his glib best friend (Kiefer Sutherland), he's on the verge of getting fired. His wife, a fast-rising model (Phoebe Cates), just left him; he's still reeling from the death of his mother (Dianne Wiest) a year earlier; and he's obsessed with a tabloid story about a pregnant woman in a coma. Bright Lights, Big City doesn't have much of a plot, but in its meandering way it captures some of the glossy chaos of the time and of a man desperately trying to escape the pain in his life. --Bret Fetzer |
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Brilliant story, and a Pacino classic. This film gives you all you need, with violence, drugs, gangsters, and death to Sean Penn. The 70's feel is awesome, and the inclusion of Mafia involvement toward the end is great. Death scenes are violent, and beautifully done. It's no Scarface, but it's definitely for someone who loves Pacino and gangster movies. |
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Michael Keaton is perfect in this role. No one else could have played that part. He is selfish, demanding, self-centered and hard headed and most of all full of fear. Slowly he begins to change even though is chaos all around him. Not only is this a good movie for addicts/alkies, jail inmates, etc. People who are trying to control an addict/alkie would also benefit from this, there is no way to control someone elses addiction.
It is very entertaining. there are some hysterically funny scenes and for once aa is not made fun of. I couldn't find it to rent it and so i bought and watched if 3 times all ready.
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Having experience with people who have done the 28 days in rehab thing, I can say that this is pretty realistic. Sandra does a great job. One of her best. The rest of the cast are good representatives of the cross section of people that suffer from addiction. Funny and sad, not everyone makes it. That's real. You feel for these people by the end of the movie. This was an eye opener for me in many ways. |
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The big-screen version of Hunter S. Thompson's seminal psychedelic classic about his road trip across Western America as he and his large Samoan lawyer searched desperately for the "American dream"... they were helped in large part by the huge amount of drugs and alcohol kept in their convertible, The Red Shark. |
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If you like mob flicks that aren't so 'gang related', but more 'bad decisions amongst buddies'.. then you should check this out. |
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Goodfellas is nothing short of excellent. The mafia is a very interesting subject in life. It's amazing to see how everyone acts in their groups and kills other people that act the same way. Goodfellas capture the mafia scene I think in a very accurate picture. |
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"Just Say Know" is beautiful and in many ways profound, and full of life. Filmed in California and Rome and southern Spain, the film, through candid family interviews, chronicles filmmaker Tao Ruspoli's family's longtime submission to heroin and opium. Ruspoli interviews his father, Prince Dado Ruspoli, mother Debra Berger, and younger brother Bartolomeo about their addiction and recovery. It's a short film and powerful in its poetry and frankness. Ruspoli's interviewing is skilled in its subtlety and sincerity - he asked difficult questions but with a heart. The camera work was dynamic, interesting and diverse without being disjointed. There's substance here and poetry - Ruspoli's father quotes a bit about Cocteau that blew me away - "I saved the man but killed the poet" - and Ruspoli never strays from the thematic thread. Dado Ruspoli - what a character. I was glad to have met a bit of the legend. And Ruspoli's mother - an artist who offered another insightful facet to the addiction that the Ruspoli family knew so intimately for so long. The perspectives are interwoven seamlessly, and with obvious tender care. What Ruspoli chose to leave out is almost as intriguing as what he included. |
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Based upon JJ Connelly's London crime novel, "LAYER CAKE" is about a successful cocaine dealer (DANIEL CRAIG) who has earned a respected place among England's Mafia elite and plans an early retirement from the business. However, big boss Jimmy Price hands down a tough assignment: find Charlotte Ryder, the missing rich princess daughter of Jimmy's old pal Edward, a powerful construction business player and gossip papers socialite. Complicating matters are two million pounds' worth of Grade A ecstasy, a brutal neo-Nazi sect and a whole series of double crossings. The title "LAYER CAKE" refers to the layers or levels the dealer has to go through as he painstakingly plots his own escape. What is revealed is a modern underworld where the rules have changed. There are no 'codes', or 'families' and respect lasts as long as a line. Not knowing who he can trust, he has to use all his 'savvy', 'telling' and skills which make him one of the best, to escape his own. The ultimate last job, a love interest called Tammy and an international drugs ring, threaten to draw him back into the 'cake mix'. But, time is running out and the penalty will endure a lifetime.. |
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Clay, an eighteen-year-old freshman, comes back from his first term at a college in New Hampshire to spend his Christmas vacation with his broken-up wealthy family in Los Angeles. His former girlfriend, Blair, is now involved with his ex-best-friend, Julian. She warns Clay that Julian needs help: he is using a lot of cocaine and has huge debts. What follows is a look at the youth culture of wealthy post adolescents in Beverly Hills with a strong anti-drug message. Apart from the setting and the names, the film has very little to do with Bret Easton Ellis's book by the same title on which it was based. |
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Leon: The Professional is a splendid thriller with some of the best acting in a while. It has Luc Besson (The Fifth Element) giving his directorial debut and Natalie Portman making her actorial debut. First off, let me tell you that it isn't an action movie like Blockbuster says it is. No, it's a touching drama that can turn into an action movie or thriller in an instant.
It has Jean Reno staring as Leon, a hitman, the best of his kind. He lives in an apartment building and his room is accross from little Mathilda (Natalie Portman), a 12 year old girl who is abused by her parents. That is soon to change though. An insane killer cop (Gary Oldman) literally whipes out her whole family because of some drugs. Mathilda is devastated..not for her parents but for her little brother. She moves in with Leon and they bond. Leon teaches her how to "clean" (kill people) and she teaches him how to read, cook, etc.. These moments are the best..the interaction between Leon and her. Splendid to watch.
The movie is a sad tale of love and war..a wonderful thriller...or drama..or action...
The acting is amazing notably by Gary Oldman who steals the show. He is in my opinion the best secondary actor of all time and his savage attitude and his darkly comic moments add so much to this movie.
The score is fantastic with a great beath that goes along with the flow of the movie. Now for the end. The ending is awesome packing action a plenty and for guys, it's just really cool. The last part with the plant is touching and a great conclusion and this movie is a definite success..and one of my faves. So, please watch this genius movie with everything be it drama, comedy, action, suspense and a GENIUS cast.
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My review of this movie is based on a lifetime overseas as the son of an oilman, as a Marine Corps infantry officer, as a clandestine case officer for the Central Intelligence Agency, and as the foremost trainer of governments interested in getting a grip on reality by focusing on open source of information in all languages.
This is a first rate movie with some truly extraordinary visuals and some truly extraordinary lines. It is an intelligence movie for intelligent people, and it should certainly give anyone both a couple of hours of enjoyment, and a couple of hours of reflection.
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Maria Full of Grace is a gem of a movie. It tells the story of a Columbian teenager desperate to get out of her dead-end job and seeming destiny as a poor single mother with no options. She agrees to be a drug mule, swallowing capsules of what I guess to be heroine before flying to the U.S. to deliver the goods. Great acting in a story I haven't seen the likes of before. No melodrama, just immediate emotion and an inspiring story of a girl seeking a new life and how she reacts when things go horribly wrong. |
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The gangster Nino has a gang who call themselves Cash Money Brothers. They get into the crack business and not before long they make a million every week. A cop, Scotty, is after them. He tries to get into the gang by letting an ex-drug addict infiltrate them, but the trial fails miserably. The only thing that remains is that Scotty himself becomes a drug pusher. |
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This sprawling epic of bloodshed and excess, Brian De Palma's update of the classic 1932 crime drama by Howard Hawks, sparked controversy over its outrageous violence when released in 1983. Scarface is a wretched, fascinating car wreck of a movie, starring Al Pacino as a Cuban refugee who rises to the top of Miami's cocaine-driven underworld, only to fall hard into his own deadly trap of addiction and inevitable assassination. Scripted by Oliver Stone and running nearly three hours, it's the kind of film that can simultaneously disgust and amaze you (critic Pauline Kael wrote "this may be the only action picture that turns into an allegory of impotence"), with vivid supporting roles for Steven Bauer, Michelle Pfeiffer, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, and Robert Loggia. Universal's special edition digital video disc includes a documentary about the making of the film that features numerous interviews and several deleted scenes. --Jeff Shannon |
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Set in the 1970s in a metropolis called "Bay City," this is the tale of two police detective partners, Ken "Hutch" Hutchinson (Wilson), and Dave Starsky (Stiller), who always seem to get the toughest cases from their boss, Captain Dobey, rely on omniscient street informer Huggy Bear (Dogg) and race to the scene of the crimes in their souped-up 1974 Ford Torino hot rod, telling the story of their first big case (as a prequel to the TV show), which involved a former college campus drug dealer (Vaughn) who went on to become a white collar criminal (Electra plays Hutch's girlfriend). |
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Intertwining vignettes frame this tale of America's escalating War on Drugs. Ohio Supreme Court judge Robert Wakefield has been appointed the nation's Drug Czar, his new position made more daunting by the discovery that his teenage daughter Caroline is a heroin addict. Meanwhile, DEA agents Montel Gordon and Ray Castro are pursuing Helena Ayala, wife of jailed kingpin Carlos Ayala, as she seeks to the control the business that her husband had kept hidden from her. South of the Border, duplicious local constable Javier Rodriguez is fighting the battle with his own jaded, questionable ethical code.
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Clarence marries hooker Alabama, steals cocaine from her pimp, and tries to sell it in Hollywood, while the owners of the coke try to reclaim it.
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t's New York City, and the crimelord Big Baby Sweets (Violent J) has got NYC around his finger. The NYPD is helpless so the Chief sends out for Sugar Bear (Shaggy 2 Dope), a 70s, Dolemite worshipping, rhyming supercop from San Fransisco to stop Big Baby, his Magic Ninjas, Hack Benjamin (Jumpsteady, and his 2 sidekicks, Big Stank (Jamie Madorx) and Lil' Poot (Monoxide Child), with the help of Officer Harry Cox (Harland Williams). |
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