Side Effects

R

Released Nov 11, 2005

1h 38m

Romance

Comedy

List

11%

9 Reviews

Tomatometer

30%

500+ Ratings

Audience Score

America! Built on a better pill. Karly Hert has spent the last ten years selling drugs. Legally, that is. Karly is a pharmaceutical sales representative. She sells pills to doctors. She makes lots of money. She has a company car. She has a nice fat expense account. But there's a growing pit in Karly's stomach. Something isn't right behind the scenes at big pharma. Based on the director's decade working directly for the industry.

Read More

Read Less

J. R. Jones

Chicago Reader

A bad movie on a vital topic.

May 11, 2006

Full Review

Jessica Reaves

Chicago Tribune

Spectacularly lame dialogue, stilted direction, amateurish production values and a soundtrack that distracts from the film as a whole.

Rated: 1.5/4

May 4, 2006

Full Review

Luke Y. Thompson

Los Angeles CityBeat

of all the people affected by big drug company scams, do we really care about the ethical dilemmas faced by gorgeous salespeople?

May 19, 2006

Full Review

Mark Olsen

L.A. Weekly

While Slattery-Moschkau is obviously coming from a very earnest place -- a card before the final credits compares the annual budget for the pharmaceutical industry to that of her own film -- it doesn't make the overall effort any less clumsy.

May 11, 2006

Full Review

Michele Kenner

Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

This is an agitprop effort to get viewers to think about the side effects of one industry's profit motive and how that affects consumers.

Rated: 2.5/4

Dec 15, 2005

Full Review

Rob Thomas

Capital Times (Madison, WI)

It's when the film loses the laughs and turns into a heavy-handed melodrama in the third act that the film sputters.

Rated: 2.5/4

Dec 8, 2005

Full Review

Read all reviews

Audience Member

awful movie, very bad quality, bad acting, had to stop after 15 minutes

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

02/10/23

Full Review

Audience Member

Another boring movie!

Rated 2 out of 5 stars

02/03/23

Full Review

Audience Member

Bobinho mas vale por ela. E a histÃ³ria de amor Ã© bonitinha!

Rated 2 out of 5 stars

01/20/23

Full Review

Audience Member

the movie puts in perspective the pharmaceutical business which is cool, and Katherine Heigl is so hot it should be illegal

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

02/23/23

Full Review

Audience Member

Os meus queridos delegados de propaganda mÃ (C)dica que me perdoem...

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

01/12/23

Full Review

Read all reviews

Post a rating

Kathleen Slattery-Moschkau

Director

Katherine Heigl

Karly Hert

Lucian McAfee

Zach

Dorian DeMichele

Jacqueline

Dave Durbin

Dan

Temeceka Harris

Grace

Show Less Cast & Crew

Show More Cast & Crew

75%

70%

Wedding Crashers

TRAILER

for Wedding Crashers

80%

81%

Bridget Jones's Diary

9%

33%

Everybody Wants to Be Italian

78%

42%

The Housekeeper

39%

43%

40 Days and 40 Nights

Discover more movies and TV shows.

View More

View more photos

Synopsis

America! Built on a better pill. Karly Hert has spent the last ten years selling drugs. Legally, that is. Karly is a pharmaceutical sales representative. She sells pills to doctors. She makes lots of money. She has a company car. She has a nice fat expense account. But there's a growing pit in Karly's stomach. Something isn't right behind the scenes at big pharma. Based on the director's decade working directly for the industry.

Director: Kathleen Slattery-Moschkau
Screenwriter: Kathleen Slattery-Moschkau
Production Co: Mo Productions, MMG Film & TV Production
Rating: R (Brief Sexuality|Momentary Language)
Genre: Romance, Comedy
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Nov 11, 2005, Original
Release Date (Streaming): Oct 1, 2010
Box Office (Gross USA): $2.2K
Runtime: 1h 38m