See Emily Blunt and Chris Evans Embrace Pharmaceutical Crime in ‘Pain Hustlers’ Trailer

The trailer for Pain Hustlers, a new film starring Emily Blunt and Chris Evans, shows the ecstasy and insanity of pharmaceutical pill peddlers as a conspiracy mounts. There are exciting scenes of sales charts, corporate confetti, cash, and pills, as well as lots of screaming and chicanery. The picture, for which the MPAA promises strong language, sexual content, and drug use, will stream on Netflix on Oct. 27.

Blunt plays Liza Drake, a newly unemployed mom who meets pharmadude Pete Brenner (Evans), who welcomes her into his world … enticing her into a life of crime. Between her demanding boss (Andy Garcia) and ailing daughter (Chloe Coleman), she starts questioning everything. Netflix describes the film as “a sharp and revealing look at what some people do out of desperation and others do out of greed.” Catherine O’Hara, Jay Duplass, and Brian d’Arcy James also star in the movie.

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Posters for the film describe Blunt’s character with the words, “She deals your pain,” and Evans’ with, “Your pain is his payday,” foregrounding the feel-good hit of autumn.

Filmmaker David Yates directed the film, whose credits include a good chunk of the Harry Potter universe and The Legend of Tarzan. He praised Blunt in a Tudum post, calling her “probably the most prepared actor I’ve ever worked with,” explaining, “She wants to explore in the architecture of the human being that she’s playing.” He said Evans “was a delight because his clean-cut, alpha male, heroic demeanor is completely turned on its head when you cast him as a sleazebag pharma sales rep.”

“I was intrigued by the pharma world, particularly the low-rent end of it, the workaday reps and sales teams striving to make a living in a hugely competitive business of dealing with people’s pain,” Yates said on Tudum. “I loved the characters [screenwriter Wells Tower] was creating on the page, and his writing.”

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