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What would an honest film about drug-taking look like?
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If you like drug films definitely check out
STORY OF A JUNKIE. It's an exploitation movie from the early '80s about the life of an actual NYC heroin addict. The movie switches back and forth between documentary and reality-based fictional scenes played out by the actual pushers and addicts. Since it's an exploitation movie everything is shoved in your face: injections, vomiting from withdrawal, petty crime, etc. The unique structure of the film combined with the disgusting milieu turns a lot of viewers off, but if you know what you're getting into and have the stomach for it you'll probably get something out of the experience. Supposedly, most of the cast has long since died of AIDS, including STORY OF A JUNKIE's charismatic addict/star John Spacely, who died from the disease in the early '90s.