Pain Hustlers - Official Trailer

Netflix has released the first trailer for Pain Hustlers, a hard-edged drama about criminality in the pharmaceutical industry.

Directed by Harry Potter’s David Yates, it stars Emily Blunt and Chris Evans. Blunt plays Liza, a woman in dire financial straights until a chance meeting with pharmaceutical sales rep Pete Brenner (Evans) embroils her in a racketeering scheme.

According to the synopsis: “Dreaming of a better life for her and her young daughter, Liza (Emily Blunt) lands a job from Pete (Chris Evans) at a failing pharma start-up, where Liza’s charm, drive, and guts catapult her into the high life and the company into the center of a criminal conspiracy with dire consequences.”

There have been several projects about dubious practices in the pharmaceutical industry recently. Both Netflix drama Painkillers and Disney+’s Dopesick explore the origin of the opioid crisis, while the new Morgan Freeman movie 57 Seconds sees a young man expose Big Pharma wrongdoing. Only that one is slightly more fantastical as he can control time. That Morgan Freeman film gets a time-turning trailer here.

Pain Hustlers hits Netflix October 27.