Addiction: A 60's Love Story

Addiction: A 60's Love Story

2015 "Husband. Father. Junkie. Pornographer."
Addiction: A 60's Love Story
Addiction: A 60's Love Story

Addiction: A 60's Love Story

4.6 | 1h30m | en | Thriller

Family man Max Bornstein was a full-time dope fiend working within the underground, highly illegal pornography industry in 1968’s New York City. While running books and films to delivery points and mob headquarters around the east coast, Max had the Feds on his tail. But even in the wake of a federal investigation, his truest worry was his wife and two young children, a family kept in the dark about his dealings and the walls of it caving in around him. As he battles his consuming addiction, dissolving family unit and the growing suspicion about his drug use amongst his associates, Max watches helplessly as his well-crafted reality falls to pieces, leaving him searching for the spaces in between.

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Released: May. 14,2015 | Released Producted By: , Country: United States of America Budget: 0 Revenue: 0 Official Website:
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Family man Max Bornstein was a full-time dope fiend working within the underground, highly illegal pornography industry in 1968’s New York City. While running books and films to delivery points and mob headquarters around the east coast, Max had the Feds on his tail. But even in the wake of a federal investigation, his truest worry was his wife and two young children, a family kept in the dark about his dealings and the walls of it caving in around him. As he battles his consuming addiction, dissolving family unit and the growing suspicion about his drug use amongst his associates, Max watches helplessly as his well-crafted reality falls to pieces, leaving him searching for the spaces in between.

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Cast

Happy Anderson , Heidi Armbruster , Brittany Athey , Michael Badalucco , Patrick Boll , Theodore Bouloukos

Director

Truman Clark McCasland

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Truman Clark McCasland
Truman Clark McCasland

Art Direction

A.R. Brook Lynn
A.R. Brook Lynn

Production Design

Kim Fischer
Kim Fischer

Set Decoration

Till Neumann
Till Neumann

Director of Photography

Zulema Griffin
Zulema Griffin

Costume Design

James Dewees
James Dewees

Additional Music

Frank Iero
Frank Iero

Additional Music

Kelly Kendrick
Kelly Kendrick

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Tate Steinsiek
Tate Steinsiek

Director

Domenic Siclari
Domenic Siclari

Associate Producer

Nayeli Abrego
Nayeli Abrego

Associate Producer

James Moccia
James Moccia

Associate Producer

Mark Breckwoldt
Mark Breckwoldt

Associate Producer

Ann Byne
Ann Byne

Associate Producer

Jason Chase
Jason Chase

Associate Producer

Tim Russell
Tim Russell

Associate Producer

Judy Bowman
Judy Bowman

Casting

Scott Levenson
Scott Levenson

Co-Executive Producer

Jonathan Marc Davidoff
Jonathan Marc Davidoff

Co-Executive Producer

Addiction: A 60's Love Story Audience Reviews

Konterr Brilliant and touching
Chirphymium It's entirely possible that sending the audience out feeling lousy was intentional
Livestonth I am only giving this movie a 1 for the great cast, though I can't imagine what any of them were thinking. This movie was horrible
Bob This is one of the best movies I’ve seen in a very long time. You have to go and see this on the big screen.
Valkrie Hayes There was much action packed adventures and lots of love and lust; a thing people adore while watching movies. The plot was clear and all of the actors truly fufilled their roles. (My favorite character was Frankie because he was played by Frank Iero ;)) The characters were very lovable and adoring, the actor for Max played a great business man trapped in illegal business. Some lines and motions in the movie were quite hilarious, I loved it so much. If there was ever a sequel to the movie I would watch it no matter the cost. I have already watched this movie three times and I loved it even more as I continued watching. Frank looked adorably small. Frank's moustache OH MY GOD.
bob_meg There is a lot to misconstrue about Addiction: A '60s Love Story. From the poster and the synopsis, it looks like it could be a luridly fun '60s porno docudrama --- it isn't. It might be a convincing, heart-rending, somewhat seedy love story. Nah, it's not that either. Ah yes, the word Addiction in the title. It's a drug film. Yep.We've all seen drug films, haven't we? We know the arc. Lost (usually young and pretty) soul searching for a place to simultaneously hide from responsibility and find themselves. They get a taste of the good life and then everything goes to hell. It can be involving when done right, which is why people still make drug movies. And this one is TRUE, on top of everything.But it's still not an interesting story.Max Bornstein was not really "in the pornography business" --- he drove a delivery truck for the porn mongers and gangsters who really WERE in the porn business. That's kind of like the kid who mows Michael Corleone's lawn claiming that he's in the mob with Luca Brazzi and Sonny. OK, so maybe what Bornstein DID is not important. Maybe it's his personal journey and the hell his family went through. Maybe that could garner some interest. Well, not really. The characters of Max's wife and kids aren't really fleshed out enough to be interesting and so there isn't any real way to get mileage out of that.So what are we left with? Basically a lot of shooting up/passing out scenes coupled with special effects that are overwrought at best (this isn't a creature feature), nauseating and ridiculous at worst. But in all fairness, gross-out effects aren't my thing. I hated Cronenberg's Naked Lunch for the same reasons. But Tate Steinsiek isn't Cronenberg and Bornstein is certainly not Burroughs.It's a shame that it strands Ian Harding in the lead role. He's actually quite good as Bornstein and reminiscent of a young Mark Ruffalo at times. Carol Kane is fine as always in a small role and there are many other decent New York actors here like Brendan Sexton and Michael Badalucco. But they're saddled with a really average vehicle here, an ultra-low budget, and only massive talent behind the camera can lift it off the ground. Sadly, that doesn't happen here.