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The Adderall Diaries

The truth is a motherf_cker.

2016 · 1h 45m · R Thriller
Directed by Pamela Romanowsky

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Overview

Writer and Adderall enthusiast Stephen Elliott reaches a low point when his estranged father resurfaces, claiming that Stephen has fabricated much of the dark childhood that that fuels his writing. Adrift in the precarious gray area of memory, Stephen is led by three sources of inspiration: a new romance, the best friend who shares his history, and a murder trial that reminds him more than a little of his own story. Based on the memoir of the same name.

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21%
Tomatometer
Rotten

Mr. Elliott's story is not helped by James Franco, who plays him with his usual smug catatonia.

Rex Reed, New York Observer
Fresh

"The Adderall Diaries" is a complex, absorbing, at times profound look at how we choose to remember our past.

Gary Goldstein, Los Angeles Times
Rotten

All affect and no personality.

Jeannette Catsoulis, New York Times
Fresh

Writer-director Pamela Romanowsky, in her first feature, captures both fireworks and tragedy in go-for-broke scenes between Franco and Harris.

Tom Keogh, Seattle Times
Rotten

The Adderall Diaries comes across as an incomplete jumble of colliding plot lines.

Richard Roeper, Chicago Sun-Times

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