Movie Review: ‘Pain Hustlers' tells a sadly familiar story with a kitchen-sink style

Movie Review: ‘Pain Hustlers' tells a sadly familiar story with a kitchen-sink style

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.

Movie Review: ‘Pain Hustlers' tells a sadly familiar story with a kitchen-sink style

“Pain Hustlers” tells a tale both familiar and tragic, the latest in a string of films about the opioid crisis

Movie Review: ‘Pain Hustlers' tells a sadly familiar story with a kitchen-sink style - The Morning Sun

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 the rest of the movie, the latest in a string of opioid-themed films, felt the same. Instead, despite a high-powered cast featuring a …