Addicted

2014 "Every Woman Needs an Escape"
5| 1h45m| R| en
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A gallerist risks her family and flourishing career when she enters into an affair with a talented painter and slowly loses control of her life.

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Colibel Terrible acting, screenplay and direction.
Console best movie i've ever seen.
Humbersi The first must-see film of the year.
Guillelmina The film's masterful storytelling did its job. The message was clear. No need to overdo.
Michael Ledo Zoe (Sharon Leal) has the perfect professional and family life...yet she feels she has a void in her life. She is a sex addict, but a classy choosey sex addict who always wears the same bra during sex. The movie is extremely formulaic and the acting and script was dry.I am sure some people might find the subject matter interesting for one reason or another, I was bored with the cutout characters.Parental Guide: F-bomb, sex, nudity. Good male eye candy.
devilz_wishbone This movie is a mature audience movie It's not an action, Sci-Fi, romcom.It's a drama movie which is clear from the trailer gets caught up on an affair caused by her pursuit for that missing element of her life.The movie obviously digs deeper I understand people's comments about the continuous sex scenesHowever what your missing is the storyline is a slow build up To explain not her behaviour and addiction to sex but the implications it has on her family life. To get a feel for that you have to appreciate she's gallivanting off to have sex, having to lie, make excuses up, being distracted from work and like all catastrofes it is not one singular event but a multitude of events that come together at the same time to set the scene.This movie portrays this brilliantly It's a drama, it's about infidelity, about the lack of time for family or husband due to having to make time for others to satisfy her addiction.Watch the movie and watch the impact on the family not the scenes of sex.I said it's a mature movie not just due to the sex but because you have to appreciate the story without it being spelt out
Brian Perkins This was without a doubt the worst movie I've ever seen. My wife and I ended up playing a game predicting all the next events, and wouldn't you know we got them all right? Addicted is a movie that seems to have been borne out of a film school class betting on how many clichés each student could put into a movie...but one student wrote some movie-cliché-mash-up software - and this was the automaton's entry! The acting was historically poor - we will measure all bad acting in the future to the psychologist in the film. We ended up laughing our tails off at the horribleness of it all while we finished our popcorn, then walked out. Bad bad bad.
viewsonfilm.com Addicted is essentially an uneven facade that in one instance, poses as softcore porn and in another instance, becomes a documented, public service announcement for sex addiction. It's a slick, trashy, yet mildly entertaining soap opera of a movie that unbeknownst to me, goes completely off the rails in its final half hour.Directed by the guy who made Honey (2003) and Beauty Shop (2005) and based on a best selling novel of the same name, Addicted is like a carbon copy of 2002's Unfaithful. But where Unfaithful had a murder and a sored cover-up to that murder, this limited October release has a silly, kill-free twist at the end (I'm not gonna count a failed suicide as murder in case you're keeping score). It also has many more love scenes in it than Unfaithful not to mention a main character that ends up having more than just one affair.The story begins with stunning, happily married businesswoman Zoe Reynard (played by Sharon Leal). She has the perfect life. She has two great kids, a husband who thinks the world of her, a loving, caring mother who lives with her (and is quite tolerable), and a beautiful home via the outskirts of Atlanta, GA. But wait a minute, her perfect husband isn't fulfilling her everyday needs (sexually that is). He's never around and is always working. Her solution: have a series of romantic trysts with a well revered painter (Quinton Canosa played by William Levy) and a womanizing club hopper (Corey played with minimal dialogue by Tyson Beckford). This leads to her addiction by which she literally ruins her career, fractures her family values, is forced to see a shrink, and decides in anguish, to (spoiler alert) commit freeway suicide. As mentioned earlier, Addicted walks a fine line between glamorizing sexuality and reiterating a certain sickness. As a result, the proceedings are choppy and disjointed despite a surprisingly good level of unpredictability.Really in truth, this vehicle is almost saved by Sharon Leal. She gives a solid, realistically grim performance in the lead role as Addicted's disturbed test subject. As for the rest of the cast, they are comprised of mostly good looking people who's acting is not as seething or as sharp. In conclusion, this is a poster child for the effects of sex addiction and to be honest, it's not really about infidelity. Addicted in its 106 minute running time, makes two mistakes: it turns a character (Levy's Canosa) who doesn't really seem menacing enough, and makes him psychotic. The second mistake is that this thing climbs too close to becoming a therapeutic healing session for a specific audience (people that go to support groups for sex addiction or don't bother to get help at all for said addiction). And as the plot thickens, it feels less like an actual film going experience and more like a hidden cry for help. Bottom line: Addicted as a drama/thriller, may offer a certain kind of appeal. But for me, it just wasn't that "addicting".