The wife of a man who nearly died of an opioid overdose comes bursting into the office of the sleazy doctor who prescribed it, wrongly, in exchange for personal gain.
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The wife of a man who nearly died of an opioid overdose comes bursting into the office of the sleazy doctor who prescribed it, wrongly, in exchange for personal gain. She slugs the doctor, in her agony. The scene comes deep into the new Netflix film “Pain Hustlers,” and it feels bracingly real and tragic. If only
We are told from the onset that “Pain Hustlers” is “inspired by real events.”
It quickly becomes clear that what that means in this case is the movie, though largely entertaining, is not telling a dra.