FILM
PAIN HUSTLERS
SIDE EFFECTS MAY INCLUDE DIZZINESS, CONSTIPATION AND A DESIRE TO WATCH SOMETHING ELSE
Hurrah for Big Pharma!
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OUT 27 OCTOBER (NETFLIX) / CERT TBC / 122 MINS
DIRECTOR David Yates
CAST Emily Blunt, Chris Evans, Andy García, Catherine O’Hara, Jay Duplass, Brian d’Arcy James, Chloe Coleman
PLOT Liza Drake (Blunt) finds security working as a drug rep — only to be embroiled in a criminal scheme at the heart of America’s opioid epidemic.
“I WILL MAKE my life count,” Liza (Emily Blunt) tells herself at her lowest ebb — or at least she thinks it’s her lowest; her car gets towed the next morning. When we first meet Liza in Pain Hustlers — anew drama from Harry Potter stalwart David Yates — she lives in her sister’s basement with her daughter Phoebe (Chloe Coleman) and mother Jackie (Catherine