Take Your Pills

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Take Your Pills

2018

1h 27m

Documentary

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In America today, where competition is ceaseless from school to the workforce and everyone wants a performance edge, Adderall and other prescription stimulants are the defining drugs of this generation.

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Owen Gleiberman

Variety

Urgent and eye-opening ...

Mar 16, 2018

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Justin Lowe

The Hollywood Reporter

The steady stream of talking-head experts doesn't do much to raise the movie's pulse. Archival footage and animated sequences that augment the interview content don't move the needle appreciably, either.

Mar 15, 2018

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Suzi Feay

Financial Times

The doping allegations against Bradley Wiggins earlier this week have made Take Your Pills especially timely.

Rated: 5/5

Mar 13, 2018

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Gary Garrison

The Playlist

Take Your Pills juggles each of these threads with ease, despite at times feeling like a product of the attention deficit generation it's examining: cluttering the screen with animations and frantic cuts.

Rated: B

Mar 21, 2018

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Kayla Cobb

Decider

Take Your Pills doesn't have an answer for why our society is so focused on success, or how we should handle the stresses that come along with achieving it. However, the film makes a point that's perhaps even more powerful.

Mar 21, 2018

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Andrea Beach

Common Sense Media

Refreshingly free of heavy-handed scare tactics, this documentary calmly and rationally explores rising amphetamine use by asking thought-provoking questions and promoting thorough understanding.

Rated: 4/5

Mar 21, 2018

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Shelby R

This movie is so incredibly biased that it shouldn't be called a documentary. More than half of the "facts" presented by the participants are either flat out incorrect while the other half are one person's opinion that makes a catch soundbite but isn't backed up with any scientific evidence, whatsoever. Take Your Pills is not only a complete waste of an hour and a half, but you will almost certainly become dumber from watching it.

Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars

07/01/23

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Dunbar D

This movie is a propaganda film. I take Adderall, It is prescribed. This movie doesn't make any distinctions between people who take the drug to deal with a deficit as prescribed, and those that abuse it or don't need it. ADHD meds are the most studied and scrutinized drugs on the market. The doc over-exaggerates the problem and stigmatizes the drug which discourages people who may need it from trying it responsibly. Adderall changed my life, and this film is cheap clickbait mess pretending to be a documentary.

Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars

02/17/23

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Audience Member

I feel like they missed the mark. They focused more on people recreationally taking it which perpetuates the cycle of judgment for people who do. If you don't have a medical need, don't take the medication. As long as your medicine is correct and the dose is correct you don't get high, you slow down so you can function. It made it even more stigmatized that these drugs a like "meth" and not good. They had a real chance and missed by a mile.

Rated 2 out of 5 stars

01/16/23

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Audience Member

This “documentary” is a joke. Typically a documentary looks at both sides but not this turd. Don’t waste your time watching this garbage

Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars

04/27/21

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Audience Member

Not an accurate representation of ADHD at all. This is a very one-sided documentary with an agenda, and it just furthers the gap between people with ADHD and neurotypical people, fostering misunderstanding and misinformation.

Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars

01/20/23

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Another stigmatized take on those who suffer from ADHD, equating the use of a drug as prescribed to a "tweaker on meth."

Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars

01/12/23

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Synopsis

In America today, where competition is ceaseless from school to the workforce and everyone wants a performance edge, Adderall and other prescription stimulants are the defining drugs of this generation.

Director: Alison Klayman
Producer: Christopher Clements, Julie Goldman, Carolyn Hepburn, Kate Osborn
Production Co: Motto Pictures
Genre: Documentary
Original Language: English
Release Date (Streaming): Mar 16, 2018
Runtime: 1h 27m

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