The Adderall Diaries (film)
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| Directed by | Pamela Romanowsky |
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| Written by | Pamela Romanowsky |
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The Adderall Diaries by Stephen Elliott |
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| Music by | Michael Andrews |
| Cinematography | Bruce Thierry Cheung |
| Edited by | Marc Vives |
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| Distributed by | A24 |
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105 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Box office | $15,364 |
The Adderall Diaries is a 2015 American crime thriller film written and directed by Pamela Romanowsky, based on a "true-crime memoir" book of the same name by Stephen Elliott. The underlying true crime is the Hans Reiser murder case. The film stars James Franco, Ed Harris, Amber Heard and Christian Slater.
The film had its world premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival on April 16, 2015. The film was released on DirecTV Cinema on March 10, 2016, prior to opening in a limited release on April 15, 2016, by A24.
Stephen Elliott is a successful author with a troubling childhood. His mother died when he was a child and his father was physically and psychologically abusive. He has lived most of his life behaving very destructively and abusing drugs and committing petty vandalism.
He was recently gotten a book deal to write his next book. He has decided to write about Hans Reiser, who is a software guru who developed the Reiser filesystem. He had a volatile marriage and his wife has gone missing. Despite his claims that his wife has simply gone into hiding to hurt him, the cops have arrested him for her murder and he is on trial. Stephen is attending court every day and following the case in hopes of writing a best seller.
His previous book was a memoir about his childhood that is about to get released. At the release party, he is reading from his book talking about how his late father hurt and abused him and his father Neil Elliott stands up in the crowd and calls him a liar. This causes him to question his childhood memories. In despair, he gets high and goes to a club and sleeps with a random person. He wakes up the middle of next day. His voicemails include his publisher dropping him for missing an important meeting and a girlfriend he was starting a relationship with dumping him. To make matters worse, he also realizes that he slept through the jury finding Hans Reiser guilty of murder.
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