Comienza a correrse la voz por las calles de Nueva Orleans de una misteriosa pastilla nueva que le confiere superpoderes únicos a cada persona que la consume. ¿La trampa? No sabes qué puede pasar hasta que la tomas... Algunos adquieren una piel a prueba de balas, invisibilidad y fuerza sobrehumana, mientras que otros padecen una reacción más letal. Con la llegada de la pastilla, la tasa de delitos de la ciudad escala a niveles peligrosos, por lo que un policía local (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) se une a una traficante de drogas adolescente (Dominique Fishback) y a un exsoldado motivado por un plan de venganza secreto (Jamie Foxx) para enfrentar con poder al poder. Tanto es así, que se arriesgan a tomar la pastilla con el objetivo de encontrar y detener al grupo responsable de su elaboración.
Los Weston viven en una gran mansión en las afueras de Pawhuska, en Oklahoma. La desaparición del padre en extrañas circunstancias hace que la familia se reúna y que todas sus miserias salgan a la luz. Adaptación al cine de la obra de teatro del mismo título, ganadora del Premio Pulitzer en 2008.
A small town doctor mistakenly ingests an experimental drug made from the blood of vampire bats which transforms the kindly medic into a bloodthirsty monster.
A man who struggles with the effects of epilepsy and heavy medication reconciles about his choices.
Film about pills from unhappy love
After the passing of his wife, a lonely newspaper editor discovers Berenalin: a medication that promises to put an end to his grief. Its effects begin to drive a wedge between him and his daughter, who needs him more than ever.
A series of erotic encounters between a young woman and her recently-widowed aunt.
This anti-drug abuse and addiction educational film features the well known American actor Paul Newman. In the movie, Newman and Dr. James L. Goddard, Commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration, examine the effects of misuse of barbiturates and amphetamines.
Stresses recognition and treatment of drug abuse emergencies, accurate identification of symptoms, and immediate clinical procedures. Presents scenes of actual cases in the emergency room and adjoining physician's offices of Beth Israel Medical Center in New York City. Viewers observe emergency treatment of patients in the major classes of drugs commonly abused, opiates, depressants, stimulants, and hallucinogens. The film demonstrates to health professionals that successful management of drug overdoses can save most lives and avert additional organic and psychiatric complications.
A high school student faces a moral dilemma, should he turn in a friend who is dealing pills.
After finding a mysterious VHS tape depicting the murders of countless people in his room, a motel guest is haunted by angry spirits from the past.
Examines the widespread use of drugs in American society and presents experts discussing different reasons for increased drug abuse by youth. Focuses on the varying opinions of a judge, researcher, child psychologist, minister, and drug user toward increased drug abuse. Emphasizes the need for helping children make proper choices about drugs. Highlight: JIM NABORS and unidentified woman do operatic duet to "Figaro" with lyrics changed to
drug references; Jim Nabors pops pills in the sequence. ALSO: Good hippie sequence in Haight-Ashbury.
A Centron Film presentation, produced by Gordon-Kerchoff, this color film is about a teenage girl who overdoses on alcohol and pills, and winds up in a coma, opens with the girl recovering in a hospital bed. This scare film from 1979 is essentially a public service announcement on the dangers of getting involved in drugs and the horrible effects that using drugs and overdosing can have on an individual and their loved ones.
An educational film sponsored and distributed by the Los Angeles-based Narcotic Educational Foundation of America and directed by Gilbert Lasky with financial assistance of the Woman’s Relief Corps targets teachers as well as junior and senior high school students in the war on drugs. Narcotics are classified and effects of opiates, stimulants, and barbiturates are summarized and dramatized
Jeanette, a pretty high school student, is looking for “kicks”. She starts hanging out with a wild crowd, and begins popping bennies, uppers and other pills. Soon she graduates from barbiturates to marijuana…
Young girl from the suburbs gets knocked up and ends up tripping out in an East Village drug den.
Un personaje se encuentra atrapado por una enfermedad de difícil comprensión para los demás, al no recibir la ayuda adecuada su personalidad es inestable y capaz de exagerar sensaciones poco relevantes en condiciones normales.
A filmed sequence dramatizes the problems addressed in the program: the story of a working mother addicted to barbiturates initially prescribed by her doctor.
Presented by Voices in Society and Travelers Insurance Indemnity, this untitled PSA-style film from the 1970s is a compilation of various anti-drug use PSAs from National Clearinghouse for Alcohol and Drug Abuse Information (NCADI). The films were assembled by a film collector who did public screenings of cult films; he often showed this compilation under the moniker “Stoner’s Night Out”. NCADI is the information service for the Center for Substance Abuse Prevention of the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services. The PSAs that comprise this film combine footage of drug use as well as interviews. Overall, this film warns of the short-term and long-term effects of drug use with the later segments of the film focusing on marijuana use specifically.