According to the CDC, opioids were involved in more than seventy-five percent of drug overdose deaths in 2021, claiming the lives of some 80,000 Americans. The numbers—roughly ten times higher than in 1999—are so staggering that individual tragedies risk becoming lost as mere statistics.
Enter writer/director Bryan Greenberg’s Junction, a film that places a very visceral, very human face on the crisis as it follows three characters throughout the course of a single harrowing, affecting day in a nation under siege:
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A doctor (Ashley Madekwe; television’s Revenge and Salem)
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A seemingly untouchable pharmaceutical company CEO (director Griffin Dunne; Scorsese’s After Hours, Landis’ An American Werewolf in London)
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A family man-turned-spiraling-addict (Greenberg; Prime and How to Make It in America)