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   Is 'Painkiller' a good movie?

   • Her words and the tragic loss etched on her face are undeniably moving, and certainly more effective than anything this overkill of a series can dream up. "Painkiller" works best as a cautionary tale for users and abusers to wake up before it's too late. Film critic Peter Travers reviews "Painkiller," streaming on Netflix now.

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   Is Netflix's Painkiller based on a true story?

   • Netflix's Painkiller is based on a true story. However, while the plot is rooted in fact, the storylines have been dramatised, and per Netflix's official description it is a "fictionalized retelling of events."

   Is Painkiller a true story? The truth behind the hit Netflix show

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   Is Painkiller a true story?

   • The events of Painkiller are largely fictional, or heavily dramatised, but its stories feel achingly real. Each episode begins with an address by families who have lost loved ones to an opioid overdose. There is no “typical” opioid victim: they are grandfathers, teenage girls, college graduates with a life ahead of them.

   Painkiller on Netflix review: this drama exploring America’s opioid

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   Will there be a 'painkiller' movie on Netflix?

   • A battle of wills between Edie and the Sacklers might have been enough for a feature film version of “Painkiller,” but this is a Netflix mini-series—so we need two more. The better of the pair is the “case study” arc of Glen Kryger (Taylor Kitsch), a mechanic who suffers a brutal accident in the premiere that leads to his addiction to OxyContin.

   Painkiller movie review & film summary (2023) - Roger Ebert

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   What books does 'pain killer' use?

   • The show uses the 2003 book Pain Killer by Barry Meier and the 2017 New Yorker article The Family That Built an Empire of Pain by Patrick Radden Keefe as its source material. Speaking about the importance of these two writings, the show's writer Noah Harpster told Netflix, "They’re just walking encyclopedias on the Sacklers and the opioid crisis."

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   Who wrote 'Painkiller'?

   • “Painkiller,” developed by Micah Fitzerman-Blue and Noah Harpster (co-writers of “ A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood ”) from a New Yorker article by Patrick Radden Keefe and Barry Meier ’s Pain Killer: An Empire of Deceit and the Origin of America’s Opioid Epidemic, moves down four intertwining tracks.

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   Aug 10, 2023 · Netflix’s new drama Painkiller, based on Patrick Radden Keefe’s Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty, tells the story of how Richard Sackler (Matthew Broderick) took...

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   Aug 10, 2023 · Painkiller review: The harrowing story of the opioid crisis has been told much more movingly elsewhere. Matthew Broderick stars as Purdue Pharma head Richard Sackler in this thinly written...

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   Aug 16, 2023 · Netflix's Painkiller is based on a true story. However, while the plot is rooted in fact, the storylines have been dramatised, and per Netflix's official description it is a "fictionalized retelling of events."

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   Aug 15, 2023 · The six-part Netflix series Painkiller, which retreads the biographical ground of last year's Dopesick as a retelling of the genesis of America's opioid epidemic, opens with promise.

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   Aug 10, 2023 · 4 min read. Director Peter Berg approaches Netflix’s six-episode “Painkiller” with an almost frantic style. There’s an urgency here in his telling of the origin of the opioid crisis in this country that’s admirable given the damage still being caused by Purdue Pharma, but ultimately shallow.

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   Aug 10, 2023 · Netflix’s righteously angry opioid-epidemic miniseries refuses to humanize its villains. A review of ‘Painkiller’ starring Uzo Aduba, Taylor Kitsch, Matthew Broderick, and Clark Gregg ...