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Side Effects

Love is a drug!

2005 · 1h 30m · R Comedy, Drama, Romance
Directed by Kathleen Slattery-Moschkau

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Overview

America! Built on a better pill. Karly Hert has spent the last ten years selling drugs. Legally, that is. Karly is a pharmaceutical sales representative. She sells pills to doctors. She makes lots of money. She has a company car. She has a nice fat expense account. But there's a growing pit in Karly's stomach. Something isn't right behind the scenes at big pharma. Based on the director's decade working directly for the industry.

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11%
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Rotten

A bad movie on a vital topic.

J. R. Jones, Chicago Reader
Rotten

While Slattery-Moschkau is obviously coming from a very earnest place -- a card before the final credits compares the annual budget for the pharmaceutical industry to that of her own film -- it doesn't make the overall effort any less clumsy.

Mark Olsen, L.A. Weekly
Rotten

Spectacularly lame dialogue, stilted direction, amateurish production values and a soundtrack that distracts from the film as a whole.

Jessica Reaves, Chicago Tribune

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