A small town community comes together to eradicate the heroin epidemic from its midst by whatever means necessary. A drama about the drug scourge that's ravaging the heartland — a bit of sociology with a touch of vigilante — feels like a rough indie sketch for the powerful contempo drug movie we have yet to see.

In the next few years, I predict someone is going to make a staggering drama about the opioid crisis — a filmmaker like, say, Debra Granik (whose first feature, “Down to the Bone,” was a lacerating drug drama), or maybe Kent Jones or Kathryn Bigelow or Steven Soderbergh.

It will, of course, be a film about something much larger than drug addiction, one that confronts the disappearance of jobs, the cycles of hopelessness and rage, the gambits of pharmaceutical companies, and the loss of faith in the system (and the future) that has hollowed out the heartland.

That’s a story that needs telling, and if it touches on the reasons so many Middle Americans have embraced a fascist used-car salesman as their political savior, then all the better.

“Shooting Heroin,” an indie drama written and directed by Spencer T. Folmar with some feeling and skill, is like a rough compelling sketch for that movie.

It’s set in the Pennsylvania backwater of Whispering Pines, a small-town community that the film presents as a traditional but desolate place, all overcast skies and isolated homes and roadside bars with zero atmosphere and ceilings that seem to be closing in on you.

Runtime: 90 Min

Release Date: 3 April, 2020

Language: English

Genres: Action, Drama, Thriller

Director: Spencer T. Folmar

Starcast: Sherilyn Fenn, Cathy Moriarty, Nicholas Turturro, Alan Powell, Brian O’Halloran, Rachel Hendrix, Lawrence Hilton-Jacobs, Spencer T. Folmar, Ola Ray

IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt8332454/

Size: 305 MB

⇒ Shooting Heroin (2020) Hollywood English WEB-DL MP4