Originally published January 29, 2021. Updated March 15, 2021.
The last time such a star-studded ensemble was put together to weave a tapestry depicting a drug war we got Steven Soderbergh’s Oscar-winning Traffic. Now Nicholas Jarecki, with his first film since 2012’s terrific Arbitrage, is hoping his multi-stranded opioid war epic Crisis can achieve similar success.
Starring Gary Oldman (Mank), Armie Hammer (Call Me by Your Name), Evangeline Lilly (Ant-Man), Michelle Rodriguez (Widows), Greg Kinnear (The Stand), Kid Cudi (Bill and Ted Face the Music), and Lily-Rose Depp (The King), Crisis will be released on February 26th in the US, and you can watch the trailer here…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H6J6hoVWrSo
Three stories about the world of opioids collide: a drug trafficker arranges a multi-cartel Fentanyl smuggling operation between Canada and the U.S., an architect recovering from an oxycodone addiction tracks down the truth behind her son’s involvement with narcotics, and a university professor battles unexpected revelations about his research employer, a drug company with deep government influence bringing a new “non-addictive” painkiller to market.
