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As to a vibrator addiction, I would advise prospective consumers to tell this movie to "buzz off".
We adults know, wink-wink, the folly of the tiger and bear, but we love such stories and we crave expectation-building stories like an addiction, she seems to say...and thereby in childhood learning sets the stage for evaluating the ensuing adult ventures toward their own mirage-like horizons.
Like the thoughtful horror cinema of George Romero, where deeper human issues boil under a more obvious horror surface, "Ginger Snaps" used lycanthropy as a metaphor for puberty and its impact on teenage relationships; "Unleashed" uses it as a metaphor for addiction, with Brigitte Fitzgerald (Emily Perkins--"It"), sister of the ill-fated Ginger (Katharine Isabelle), injecting herself with wolfbane to curb her increasingly wolf-like tendencies.
I gathered that she was homicidal because of the effects of the drug, but the film didn't really clarify, either through a back story telling about her addiction to and reactions from the drug or some other device.
Shockingly mediocre supporting cast, including an extremely hammy Richard Pryor, helps make this film a real snore between Ross/Holiday's musical numbers and heroin addiction scenes.
And all the male attributes just boil through the costumes -- the bitchiness, the gossiping, the aggressive competition, the addiction to anything that comes along, the total lack of self control, the sensitivity to insult, the desperation for a mate, the desperation to be the only one on stage -- all of it so absolutely, totally male -- and the wish they could do like women do and DRESS ANY WAY THEY WANT (And you KNOW males would overdo the makeup just like that -- have you ever seen the hairpieces?).
Also, the main character exhibits a stronger than normal addiction to pot that makes it appear to be more of a physical addiction like crack or heroin, rather than psychological as is more commonly considered by the scientific community.
I think it's called an addiction :) I just bought the DVD with 8 episodes (the episodes around Geoff and Kate's wedding and of course the wedding itself) I can't get enough, I hope they bring out more episodes... PLEASE CRAWFORD PRODUCTIONS....
It showed what can happen to a family when an addiction occurs, whether it be alcohol drugs , or in this case sex.
yes i said sex. there's actually an addiction for that, Harry Hamlin plays the cheating husband absorbed with sex, Lisa Rinna from Days of Our Lives plays the drama teacher wife.
Pamela Sue Martin, then part of the acting ensemble on TV's "Dynasty", co-wrote, co-produced and stars in this tatty tale of drug addiction.
While this film does have some interesting ideas (vampirism as an addiction), the execution is horrible.
It deals with very heady topics like addiction, prostitution, violence, greed etc. and all other kinds of vices, to which people succumb and become such enticing prey for the devil.
Suddenly all his sex addiction problem ends when he finds the girl of his dreams (that's like for the fourth or fifth time).
This movie brought to full and vivid life the powers of addiction.
My addiction is only to cigarettes, Thank God, but I still understand Jack's addiction.
I have sold personal items and even looked in dumpsters to feed my addiction to cigarettes.
Of the three, Son is the least hopeless case in a truly dysfunctional trio, but his relationship with his girlfriend and pre-teenage son is decidedly rocky due to his gambling addiction.
It is simply an attempt to portray as objectively as possible the impacts that certain social issues have on society, including: poverty, child abuse, divorce, addiction, spousal infidelity, anger, revenge, and unforgiveness.
I appreciate smart dialogs and subtle atmosphere as much as the next guy, but a synopsis claiming to revolve on blood addiction and passionate murder eventually must show something, right?
I've always been a big fan of cult films that expose some sort of cool and/or intriguing sub-culture whether it's rhyme battling in 8 MILE, heroin addiction in TRAINSPOTTING, or even fraudulent stock trading in BOILER ROOM.
Vampires Anonymous starts in Los Angeles where Vampire Vic Weller (Paul Popowich) needs help controlling his addiction to blood so he calls Vampires Anonymous who run a twelve step program for Vampires.
She's battling an addiction of her boyfriend and her boyfriend's battling his own addiction with drugs.
Even though she survives, she develops a strange affection - one may say addiction - for ice and cold.
Not once is addressed addiction as a serious personality disorder.
I don't know what the filmmaker's intentions were, but inadvertently he's created a wonderful illustration of how lost homosexual culture is, even beyond the typical stereotypes of drug abuse and sex addiction.
Along the way she deals with drug addiction, rape, prostitution etc etc.
I am a father of 6 children who also abandoned my older children due to obsessive work and alcohol addiction before I eventually 'woke up'.
The only thing interesting about this movie was the Jane's Addiction poster in the main character's bedroom.
madonna in that film with the candle wax was more entertaining, and there are hundreds of films about addiction or technology with more panache and substance requiem for a dream, trainspotting, primer, .
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