Pain Hustlers (2023) on Netflix
Liza Drake, a single mother, lives in her sister's garage with her epileptic daughter Phoebe and dances for a living. A customer, Pete Brenner, offers her a job at a pharmaceutical start-up.
- Netflix2.2/5
- IMDb6.6/1056,395 votes
- Rotten Tomatoes23%
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Plot summary
Home for Liza Drake and her epileptic daughter Phoebe is a garage in Florida belonging to her sister, and her income comes from work as an exotic dancer. An argument over money ends that arrangement; they move into a motel, and after her car is repossessed she takes a sales job from Pete Brenner, a customer, at Zanna, a pharmaceutical start-up that is struggling to break into the market and scrambling for investors ahead of a planned public offering. Pete rewrites her resume to include a biochemistry degree, and the founder, Doctor Jack Neel, overrides the company's hiring freeze. Handed five days to land a physician who will prescribe Lonafen, the company's drug, she works through every prospect on her list.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Pain Hustlers (2023)
Can contain spoilers, watch the movie first.
- Pain Hustlers is loosely based on Insys Therapeutics, a real pharmaceutical company, and the role it played in the US opioid crisis.
