Puncture (2011) on Netflix
Mike Weiss, a drug-addicted lawyer, and his partner Paul Danziger take the case of nurse Vicky Rogers, who contracted HIV from a contaminated needle. Hospitals will not buy the safety needle.
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Plot summary
Mike Weiss and Paul Danziger are personal injury lawyers and partners in a Houston firm. Mike struggles with a drug addiction, and Paul has a pregnant wife at home. Nurse Vicky Rogers comes to them after a contaminated needle injured her at work and she contracted HIV. She brings them a safety needle that her family friend Jeffrey Dancort invented and that can be used only once, and she asks the lawyers to help bring it to hospitals. Dancort's company can sell the needle to only one hospital in the United Medical group. Mike and Paul take on United Medical, whose defense is led by the attorney Nathaniel Price. Money at the firm is running out.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Puncture (2011)
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The film is based on the real story of Houston lawyer Michael David Weiss, who died of a drug overdose in 1999 at age 32; director Adam Kassen dedicated the film to him.SPOILER
A postscript reveals that in 2004 attorney Mark Lanier, playing himself in the film, really did settle a lawsuit against a major medical supply manufacturer for more than $150 million, after which thousands of US hospitals switched to safety needles.
