Side Effects (film)
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Side Effects (2005) is a feature film about the pharmaceutical industry starring Katherine Heigl (known for her role on the television series Grey's Anatomy).
Directed and written by Kathleen Slattery-Moschkau, the movie is about Karly Hert, a young woman who fumbles with love and ethics as she navigates a career within corporate America's pharmaceutical industry. The movie's title is a reference to the medical term side effects.
The film was promoted on its indy budget, $190,000. This was actually a moderate budget considering it was shot entirely on video, used mostly interns for production crew, had spartan sets and props and few locations, paid the majority of their actors scale wages, and featured, at the time, a relatively unknown Katherine Heigl. It bombed at the box office and was not very well received. It was initially released as a scathing exposé of the pharmaceutical industry but was later promoted as a satire and/or romantic comedy.
In May 2006, Slattery-Moschkau released a related documentary entitled "Money Talks: Profits before Patient Safety", which further explored drug industry marketing practices in interviews with doctors, journalists, and activists. The director herself was in the industry for ten years. She started having qualms about her company's practices after five years, but reported that the financial rewards these companies give their representatives kept her in the industry for five more years.
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