![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() If that dream brings him billions and helps him laugh in the face of condescending relatives, all the better. It all starts with the Sackler family, particularly Richard Sackler (Stuhlbarg), who funnels a gnawing inferiority complex into a superficially altruistic dream of conquering pain with a miracle drug known as Ox圜ontin. The drama also features Looming Tower co-stars Michael Stuhlbarg and Peter Sarsgaard - and probably the only reason Jeff Daniels doesn’t appear here is that he was doing his own tepid, opiate-crisis-tinged miniseries, Showtime’s American Rust.įollowing Macy’s book, Dopesick offers a stratified look at the floundering front in America’s drug war, interweaving real-life and fictional characters. Like The Looming Tower, Dopesick comes across as Hulu’s attempt to do a mid-’00s HBO miniseries, this time going so far as to recruit HBO good-luck charms Danny Strong ( Recount) and Barry Levinson ( Paterno) to write and direct, respectively, this adaptation of Beth Macy’s Dopesick: Dealers, Doctors, and the Drug Company That Addicted America. Cast: Michael Keaton, Peter Sarsgaard, Michael Stuhlbarg, Will Poulter, John Hoogenakker, Kaitlyn Dever and Rosario DawsonĬreator: Danny Strong, from the book by Beth Macy ![]()
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