Off Label (2013)
Average Rating: 4.7/10
Reviews Counted: 13
Fresh: 6 | Rotten: 7
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Average Rating: 4.7/10
Critic Reviews: 6
Fresh: 3 | Rotten: 3
No consensus yet.
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Doctors today are liberally writing prescriptions for psychotropic drugs such as Adderall, Ambien, Zoloft, and Prozac (amongst many, many others). Often these drugs are combined in polypharmacy cocktails or are given out for unapproved or untested indications, leading to abuse, dangerous side effects and heavy dependence. In OFF LABEL, Michael Palmieri and Donal Mosher (October Country) examine our runaway pharma-culture by weaving together the stories of drug testing subjects, Big Pharma
Aug 9, 2013 Limited
Oscilloscope
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Despite some artful visuals and harrowing testimony, this 2012 advocacy documentary suffers from a lack of focus.
Top CriticCo-directors Michael Palmieri and Donal Mosher try to encompass so many people and so many angles in such a short amount of time, they end up breezing through them and providing glimpses that feel rushed and unsatisfying.
The film's stacked stories naggingly lack a cohesive train of thought beyond the often harmful pervasiveness of pharmaceuticals in American society.
Conversation-starting doc may cause you to scrutinize your medicine cabinet.
Palmieri and Mosher have taken on a huge and urgent topic, and their work's impact rests on their refusal to tell viewers how to feel.
Michael Palmieri and Donal Mosher's tragicomically beautiful art-doc ... sensitively favors unflinching testimonials and visually impressionistic observations over journalistic activism.
If you haven't made up your mind that big pharma is a criminal enterprise, this documentary should close the deal.
Important, hard-hitting documentary about the pharmaceutical industry, its greed and the serious human havoc it wreaks.
Acute moments of heartbreak punctuate Off Label, a collage-type snapshot of runaway pharma-culture which otherwise struggles to find a topic sentence or cultivate a cogent point-of-view.
For maximum digestibility, everything is cut up into vignette-sized chunks and flavored like boutique web content.
This staggeringly incompetent, utterly pointless film ... is to the advocacy doc what Plan 9 From Outer Space was to science-fiction cinema.
Off Label brilliantly exposes how the many routes from faith and trust to desperation and despair are varied and sometimes hard to trace.
Sincerely angry about the crisis in polypharmacy, this narrative suffers from a documentarian form of A.D.D.
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I get it, drugs are bad. Or are they? Off Label was a collection of various unsympathetic characters describing their experiences with poly-pharma in rapid fire succession. Believe it or not, there are people who believe that ingesting psychotropic drugs aren't the only alternative. Instead of creating a compelling dialogue, the directors chose the easy and simple path of close up shots of grieving mothers and young people describing their various exposures with Adderall and Oxycotine.