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Self Medicated
Directed by
Monty Lapica
R
2005
1h 47m
Drama
,
Biography
5.7
37%
52%
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A pill-popping mom has her drug-abusing teen son abducted into a private intervention facility that means well.
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Cast of Self Medicated
Monty Lapica
Andrew
Diane Venora
Louise
Kristina Anapau
Nicole
Michael Bowen
Dan Jones
Greg Germann
Keith
Matthew Carey
Aaron
Shane Stuart
Seth Calenes
William Stanford Davis
Gabe
Michael Mantell
Dr. Reinholtz
Faleolo Alailima
Kawa
Kelly Kruger
Tori
Karim Prince
Steve
Glenndon Chatman
John
Noah Segan
Trevor
Ray Benson
Andrew's Father
Marcus Toji
Mike
Nathan Sabatka
Young Andrew Eriksen
Jennifer Parsons
Mrs. Fehringer
Kelli Barksdale
Brightway Patient
Self Medicated Ratings & Reviews
Boston Globe
Janice Page
Lapica's debut impresses with its strong, clear voice and desire to tell a very personal story not just of substance abuse but of that abuse's painful root cause.
New York Daily News
Elizabeth Weitzman
Note to fledgling directors: when making a movie, you don't have to do everything yourself. In fact, you probably shouldn't.
Newsday
Jan Stuart
Lapica's lack of distance from his story is both the film's strength and its weakness.
Los Angeles Times
Michael Ordoña
Self-Medicated must have been cathartic for writer-director-producer-star Monty Lapica to make, but its therapeutic value for audiences is questionable.
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert
On the basis of this film, Monty Lapica, at 24, has a career ahead of him as a director, an actor or both. He also has a life ahead of him, which the film does a great deal to make clear.
San Francisco Chronicle
G. Allen Johnson
Though the script and storytelling could have used more polish, Lapica's honesty provides the lasting impression.
AV Club
Scott Tobias
It's a personal story that feels like it's been constructed from other movies.
Seattle Times
Ted Fry
It's just a little too simplistic and not a very compelling story.
Chicago Tribune
Michael Phillips
Lapica isn't yet enough of a writer or director (or an actor) to make the dramatic arc unpredictable in any way. It may be effective for some as therapy. It is far less so as cinematic storytelling.
New York Times
Jeannette Catsoulis
Monty Lapica's film about the self-destructive behavior of a 17-year-old suffers from severe dramatic droop.
Arizona Republic
Bill Goodykoontz
Self Medicated is that rare treat: a really good movie and, one hopes for Lapica, the start of something even bigger.
Austin Chronicle
Marrit Ingman
Even when it is inelegant, Self-Medicated is a compelling small-scale drama, and Lapica is a talent to watch.
MovieFreak.com
Sara Michelle Fetters
This is a complicated, three-dimensional woman full of pain, heartbreak, confusion and, most of all, love, Venora painting this portrait of motherly devotion as if she were Picasso reincarnated.
Slant Magazine
Ed Gonzalez
Self-Medicated has won more accolades than Brokeback Mountain, not a single one for its side-splitting dialogue.
Ebert & Roeper
Richard Roeper
It's just horrible stuff.
Chicago Reader
J. R. Jones
The movie slides toward melodrama with some stale business about the hero spreading his late father's ashes and an embarrassing sequence in which a homeless man washes Lapica's car, delivers a benediction, and magically disappears.
The Hollywood Reporter
Michael Rechtshaffen
Newcomer Monty Lapica makes an assured debut on both sides of the camera in Self-Medicated, a lightly fictionalized account of his drug-abusing high school years and attempted rehabilitation at a controversial treatment center.
Reel.com
Jim Hemphill
Monty Lapica's Self-Medicated is a powerful, personal piece of independent filmmaking
TV Guide
Ken Fox
There are nice touches, particularly in Venora's performance and Timothy Kendall's editing, but the film's maudlin edge illustrates the dangers of directing your own material.
Oregonian
Shawn Levy
As it stands, the film is more often self-absorbed than self-aware.
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