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The Adderall Diaries
Directed by
Pamela Romanowsky
R
2016
86m
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5.1
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Elliot, a troubled former successful writer decides to write about a missing wife and the following murder trial of her husband.
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Cast of The Adderall Diaries
James Franco
Stephen Elliott
Amber Heard
Lana Edmond
Ed Harris
Neil Elliott
Christian Slater
Hans Reiser
Wilmer Valderrama
Josh
Jim Parrack
Roger
Cynthia Nixon
Jen Davis
Michael Cristofer
Paul Hora
Danny Flaherty
Teenage Roger
Timothée Chalamet
Teenage Stephen Elliott
Jake Katzman
Cori Resier
Eliana Fanders
Lila Resier
Tamzin Brown
Miranda
Tonya Glanz
Lissette
Casper Andreas
Nate Sweetzer
Giulia Cicciari
Amelia
Rochelle Bostrom
Amanda
Raymond T. Williams
Doug
Laura Frost
Nina
Giuseppe Cicciari
Jax
The Adderall Diaries Ratings & Reviews
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Observer
Rex Reed
Mr. Elliott's story is not helped by James Franco, who plays him with his usual smug catatonia.
HeraldNet (Everett, WA)
Robert Horton
A dumb adaptation of Stephen Elliott's memoir about (among other things) writer's block, a murder trial, and S&M sex. James Franco looks stupefied in the lead role, and the film's point remains murky throughout.
Under the Radar
Zach Hollwedel
Romanowsky attempts too much, and winds up succeeding in very little.
Madison Movie
Rob Thomas
"The Adderall Diaries" never commits to any of these paths in a convincing way - the true-crime saga in particular feels bizarrely tacked-on, as if Elliott was taking a break in the middle of his emotional turmoil to watch an episode of "Law & Order."
San Diego Union-Tribune
Anders Wright
There are scattered subplots that never truly come together as a cohesive whole. It's a labor of love that doesn't successfully do its source material justice.
Los Angeles Times
Gary Goldstein
"The Adderall Diaries" is a complex, absorbing, at times profound look at how we choose to remember our past.
New York Times
Jeannette Catsoulis
All affect and no personality.
Seattle Times
Tom Keogh
Writer-director Pamela Romanowsky, in her first feature, captures both fireworks and tragedy in go-for-broke scenes between Franco and Harris.
IndieWire
David Ehrlich
The Adderall Diaries is about nothing but itself. It's not fiction, it's forgery. It's not adaptation, it's erasure.
Chicago Sun-Times
Richard Roeper
The Adderall Diaries comes across as an incomplete jumble of colliding plot lines.
Chicago Daily Herald
Dann Gire
The Adderall Diaries starts as a drama about a bad case of writer's block before it morphs into an essay on the unreliable nature of memory and perception, then becomes a testimonial to the power of forgiveness -- without ever mentioning it.
New York Post
Sara Stewart
A patchwork of narcissism that isn't stitched together all that well.
AV Club
Katie Rife
Everything that happens in The Adderall Diaries is treated with the same weight, which is to say no weight at all.
Village Voice
Serena Donadoni
Franco seems the ideal interpreter of The Adderall Diaries, but he's reduced the memoirist's tough introspection to misery porn.
Slant Magazine
Christopher Gray
It's too busy skipping through subplots to do much more than gloss over such heady issues as the fundamental subjectivity of truth and self-identity.
Variety
Guy Lodge
With its heavy image processing and injudicious use of slo-mo, there's a certain student-film quality to The Adderall Diaries that neither masters nor disciplines the complex, eccentric sprawl of the source material.
The Hollywood Reporter
John DeFore
Writing a first-person memoir about your own contradictory and troubled but fascinating personality, is starting to seem a lot easier than making a big-screen adaptation of someone else's.
TheWrap
Dan Callahan
The style and tone of The Adderall Diaries is loose and free flowing, so that heavy subjects never feel heavy-handed in their treatment.
The Playlist
Kate Erbland
Romanowksy has gamely hacked through Elliott's purposely messy and tangential material to craft a workable portrait of pain and addiction, one that's bizarrely entertaining even in its most brutal moments, good enough for at least one hit.
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