Edie Flowers in Painkiller (2023)
Which brings us to another recent Netflix project about the opioid crisis.
Painkiller stars Uzo Aduba as Edie Flowers, an attorney with the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Roanoke, Virginia who goes on a campaign to stop the Sackler family’s pain empire — in part because addiction has hit her own family.
She’s one of those heroes who seems to good to be true, because she is. Edie Flowers is not a real person.
“She’s a composite character of a number of investigators, journalists, and some government investigators who, collectively… blew the whistle on this,” Painkiller executive producer Eric Newman told MovieMaker.
That said, we aren’t counting this one on our list of 10 Fact-Based Movies With Made-Up Heroes because Painkiller is a limited series, not a movie. You can read more about what it gets right, and makes up, right here.
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