Take Your Pills
2018 · 87 min · Director: Alison Klayman
Show plot summary (may contain spoilers)
The pressure to achieve more, do more, and be more is part of being human - and in the age of Adderall and Ritalin, achieving that can be as close as the local pharmacy. No longer just "a cure for excitable kids," prescription stimulants are in college classrooms, on Wall Street, in Silicon Valley...any place "the need to succeed" slams into "not enough hours in the day." But there are costs. In the insightful Netflix documentary TAKE YOUR PILLS, award-winning documentarian Alison Klayman (Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry) focuses on the history, the facts, and the pervasiveness of cognitive-enhancement drugs in our amped-up era of late-stage-capitalism. Executive produced by Maria Shriver and Christina Schwarzenegger, TAKE YOUR PILLS examines what some view as a brave new world of limitless possibilities, and others see as a sped-up ride down a synaptic slippery slope, as these pills have become the defining drug of a generation.
Emotional fingerprint
Take Your Pills (2018) — Movie. Top emotional signals: Anxiety 30%, Confusion 25%, Inspiration 20%. Source: AI estimate. Shares describe emotional signal, not percentages of people. Your experience may differ. How we measure
- Anxiety30%
- Confusion25%
- Inspiration20%
- Curiosity15%
- Sadness10%
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The strongest emotional signals are Anxiety, Confusion, Inspiration. Genres: Documentary. AI estimate.
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Cast
Self - Former NFL Player (as Eben)
Self - Political Theorist, UC Berkeley
Self - College Senior
Self - Chair of Neurology, University of Pennsylvania
Self - Journalist, Author - ADHD Nation
Self - Author, On Speed
Self - Software Engineer
Self - Eben's Wife (as Brit)
Self - Cognitive Neuroscientist, University of Pennsylvania
Self - Chair of Psychology, Columbia University
Self - Pediatrician, Author - Running on Ritalin
Self - Psychologist, Author - The ADHD Explosion
Self - Artist Management (as Blue)
Self - Leigh's Roommate
Self - Psychotherapist
Self - Financial Analyst
Self - Jasper's Mom (as Regina)
Details
- Directed by
- Alison Klayman
- Type
- Movies
- Released
- 2018
- Runtime
- 87 min
- Country
- United States
- Genres
- Documentary
- Ratings
- Feels mostly
- Anxiety
- Data updated
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