Synopsis
Pain Hustlers (2023) is David Yates's drama you can watch online on iFILM. Lisa Drake dropped out of college, raises her young daughter alone, and grabs whatever work she can find. Her break arrives as a sales job at a near-bankrupt pharma startup pushing a powerful painkiller.
Emily Blunt plays Lisa as someone who starts out just trying to keep the lights on, then gets hooked on the money. She turns out to be a natural closer and hauls the company off the floor, alongside the smooth-talking Pete Brenner (Chris Evans) and the firm's eccentric founder (Andy Garcia). The hustle is simple: pay doctors to write more scripts. Cash pours in, the cars get nicer, and somewhere far away real patients are getting dependent on the drug.
Yates, best known for his later Harry Potter films, trades wizardry here for a grimy story about American greed, one that echoes the real scandal around the Insys company and its fentanyl spray. Blunt and Evans sell the charm, then let the rot show through. Stream Pain Hustlers (2023) online on iFILM.
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