Pain Hustlers True Story: The Wild Tale That Inspired The Netflix Movie
While the movie's sequence of events seems strange, the Pain Husters' true story is just as bizarre and hard to believe. Directed by David Yates (State of Play), Pain Hustlers is a fictional retelling of the 2016 Insys Scandal, when racketeering charges were brought against the company and several employees. Emily Blunt stars as Liza Drake, a single mother hired to find doctors to bribe them to prescribe a specific pain medication to their patients, which helped the company make incredible profits.
Blunt is Liza, a single mother working as an exotic dancer to make ends meet when Peter Brenner (Chris Evans) offers her a lucrative job with the pharmaceutical company Zanna. On top of Blunt and Evans, Pain Hustlers has an all-star cast, including Catherine O'Hara, Andy Garcia, Jay Duplass, and Brian d'Arcy James. However, while the story in the film was close to the real-life incidents from The Insys Scandal,...
Blunt is Liza, a single mother working as an exotic dancer to make ends meet when Peter Brenner (Chris Evans) offers her a lucrative job with the pharmaceutical company Zanna. On top of Blunt and Evans, Pain Hustlers has an all-star cast, including Catherine O'Hara, Andy Garcia, Jay Duplass, and Brian d'Arcy James. However, while the story in the film was close to the real-life incidents from The Insys Scandal,...
- 11/20/2024
- by Shawn S. Lealos
- ScreenRant
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