Addiction hailing from Joshua Nelson was a magnificent tale of three different forms of addiction. When you first think of the word addiction you immediately think of drugs. That is not the case in Addiction The Movie. Writer Joshua Nelson looks at life, and points out that not only drugs can be addicting, but life itself .
The first little segment is about a man named Bobby (Frank Franconeri) who pretty much has a good life. He has a beautiful wife and a decent job .Things seem pretty copesetic. Even with all of this he's still a little stressed so Bobby and his wife Lisa (Mim Granahan) plan a trip to just, ya know, get away for a bit . Really the only down-falls Bobby might have is that he's sort of a pushover and always has been or,his cousin Frankie (Joshua Nelson, also the writer) who is addicted to heroin, and just got out of the joint keeps coming around . He begs Bob to help him out a little, and Bob shuns the idea that Frankie might be back on Heroin, but helps him anyways. One night after getting off work on his way home Bobby gets mugged. He fights with the guy and ends up killing him. Not knowing what he should do he runs back to his office and site for a while to think things over. Bobby freaks out with his first brush with this new experience, he has a rush of feelings he's never felt before, and he doesn't know how to handle them.
On deciding to keep it to himself he returns home to a very different life than when he left that morning. Bobby finds he's become an insomniac, and the only way for him to sleep is to quench his new undying thirst for murder. So he get's up and goes to the park. While there he talks to a bum who is complaining that he doesn't want to live anymore, Bobby asks him " are you sure you wanna die" the man agrees so Bobby obliges. Bobby is slowly loosing control of his life at this point and everyone including his wife believes that there is something severely wrong with Bobby.
Frankie takes the money he got from Bobby and pays a visit to his dealer. Begging for more time to get the rest he's just put himself into a hole he may never be able to crawl out of. These guys mean business. Frankie comes up with all sorts of crazy stuff to get out of his debts. He even whores his girlfriend out to the pusher to buy more time. Throughout addiction we meet Ruthie (Lydia Fiore). Ruthie can't seem to hold a job very long due to her gutter mouth, and doesn't know what she's going to do to support her daughter. She talks with a friend one night about watching her daughter so she can pull tricks again.. She feels like that's all she'll be able to do from now on, that , that's all she's good at. I believe Ruthie holds a very dramatic part to this film and was pretty much the turning point within.
So as you can see addiction is not what you'd first perceive it to be. O no it's much better than just what the the title says. This movie had my attention the entire time; as I was butt firmly planted in the chair with eyes wide open. The acting was so superb; it only made the story that much more enjoyable, which was tremendous to begin with. Just watching Bobby go further down the spiral, and see his life spinning out of control was just pure creepy . Slowly he'd get snappier, and more restless, until he reached his breaking point where there was no return. Addiction is full of tension and eerie thought provoking scenes. I'ts been nice to watch a movie where you didn't have your token slasher of much blood. Just a plain eerie twist of events that tie each other together. I guess the thing that makes addiction such a great movie is with the exception of Bobby's actions these are all people we either know or have heard of. That addictions can be in every household in one way or another. Even the supporting cast would make this movie worth the watch. The superb team of James Tucker and Joshua Nelson's effort of Addiction just shows us what we can expect from these guys in the future.Murder becomes ones passion. Ones obsession. Ones compulsion.
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