The Normals (2012)
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With a debt collector hot on his trail, Harvard graduate Billy Schine enrolls in a clinical drug trial to make a quick buck. Carted out of New York City in a shuttle full of oddball characters, Billy and the rest of the guinea pigs, affectionately referred to as "Normals," camp out at hidden research facility. When not popping pills, being tagged, drained of blood, prodded, poked and color-coded, they are telling horror stories of previous tests or generally getting on each other's nerves. As
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The satire - about religion, medicine, TV culture - is larded unevenly, the homage overly obvious.
Top CriticCiancimino and director Kevin Patrick Connors's lone gag pays off. Too bad the joke is only funny in retrospect.
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Don't watch this if you fear needles or blood you might find yourself out cold. It humorously villainizes the big pharma groups and testing medical farms out there. It a great little flick if you have time.