Novocaine (2001) on Netflix
Dr. Frank Sangster, a dentist, takes on Susan Ivey as a patient. She asks for Demerol, and after one night his narcotics are gone and a DEA agent is at his door.
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Plot summary
Dr. Frank Sangster runs a dental practice and lives a settled, ordinary life. Susan Ivey arrives as a new patient needing a root canal and asks for something for the pain. She says she is allergic to the ibuprofen he offers, so he writes her a prescription for the painkiller Demerol, limited to five tablets. At the pharmacy she changes the amount to fifty. She turns up twelve hours late for the appointment, talks Frank into drinking with her and into bed, and leaves with his entire supply of narcotics. The next day a DEA agent comes to the office. A teenager has driven a car off a cliff after taking cocaine hydrochloride from a bottle traced to the dentist, and Frank promises to hand over the empty containers in two days.
Cast
- Teri Cotruzzolaas Attractive Complaining Patient
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Novocaine (2001)
Can contain spoilers, watch the movie first.
- Screenwriter David Atkins wrote the screenplay while working in the dental practices of his father and brothers, and said he wanted an everyman character: "I just thought a dentist is a perfect everyman."
