The Fix TV-Show Review 2019 Cast Crew
Stars: Robin Tunney, Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje, Merrin Dungey
Laura Naylor follows a junkie from the Bronx who finds a new purpose as a peer counselor.Making her solo debut after being one of the three directors of the intriguing Mormon doctor Duck Beach to Eternity, Laura Naylor tackles a more familiar theme in The Fix, a moving look at addicts who help themselves by helping others . Focused on Junior Alcantara, a man from the Bronx who is frank about past failures without dramatizing them in excess, the well-made film will impress audiences with festivals and small screens that are not discouraged by the issues (not just drugs, but hepatitis C and family trauma) that sounds sadder on the page than they are on screen.
Junior is one of four recovering drug users we know who not only struggle with addiction, but who live with hepatitis C, a disease that is described here as five times more widespread than HIV / AIDS. Everyone is enrolled in a Bronx program designed to help them advise others in their shoes, men and women who might not respond as well to regular social workers. Some have lived for decades with the disease, which is widespread among intravenous drug users, so this is the basis of this effort in a methadone clinic.
Doctors and other organizers provide a useful context about the disease and explain the effectiveness of programs whose funds can be cut by legislators. But the political concerns of the image could fall on deaf ears if it were not for the convincing nature of Junior's story, which is intelligently rationed through the film. Raised in a straight home, he was devastated by the divorce of his parents; He escaped with drugs that soon consumed his life. Having lost custody of his young daughter 10 years ago, Junior is determined to clean up in time to raise a new child and take his family out of the shelter where they currently live.
Junior finds his voice among friends in the training program of friends without prejudice, and then makes his way into a storytelling session directed by The Moth. The film feels dramatic because of the extreme nervousness it feels when passing from a circle of fellow addicts to a middle-class artistic audience in Manhattan, but no additional drama is needed in a story in which we are already fully interested.
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