2017 | Norway | NR | 85 min.
When Norwegian director Anniken Hoel’s mentally ill but otherwise healthy sister died suddenly of a cardiac episode, she suspected that doctor-prescribed antipsychotic medications were at the root of her death. What she didn’t know was how many similar deaths have happened: as it turns out, tens of thousands of them. Hoel’s sister had been prescribed multiple medications, all with dangerous side effects. Why was no one informed? As Hoel investigates, she discovers that many prescribing physicians have no knowledge of the potentially deadly side effects. Treading carefully, she explores the way marketing masterminds at pharmaceutical companies control this information in the name of profit, and ignore or downplay the medications’ adverse effects—not to mention a broader implication of misdiagnoses of mental illnesses. In her debut film, Hoel’s investigation takes her around the world, where she interviews doctors, scientists, patients, and more to uncover the reasons why profit is valued over the well-being of patients.
PRE-SHOW MUSIC BY
Robin Lee Berry (Wed)
Jacob Alexander Daugherty (Sat)
SPONSORED BY
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