2014 · drama · comedy
Better Living Through Chemistry
Directed by Geoff Moore, David Posamentier1h 31m2014
A straight-laced pharmacist's uneventful life spirals out of control when he starts an affair with a trophy wife customer who takes him on a joyride involving sex, drugs and possibly murder.
Our read: Better Living Through Chemistry (2014) reads as a neutral, kinetic, grounded drama · comedy entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Neutral, kinetic, measured drama / comedy, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, cold.
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