As someone who has always been interested in sketchy rehab stories, John Swab’s upcoming new indie movie Body Brokers seems like perfect opportunity to look into this reality. Collider has exclusively debuted a trailer to the film, and it shows a sneak peek into Frank Grillo (The Purge) running a devious rehab scam.
Body Brokers stars Jack Kilmer (Lords of Chaos & Palo Alto) and Alice Englert (Beautiful Creatures) as Utah and Opal, two drug addicts living on the streets of rural Ohio when man named Wood (Michael K. Williams) befriends them and offers to bring them to Los Angeles to a rehab facility. Utah appears to become sober with the help of a therapist (Melissa Leo), and he soon falls in love with former addict (Jessica Rothe) who now works as a tech at the treatment center. However, Utah eventually finds out that the facility is actually just a cover for a predatory business which makes addicts recruit other addicts.
Not only is the story fascinating, but Swab himself went through something similar: “I was a street junky for over a decade. During my early attempts at recovery, I went through countless rehabs and detoxes all over the country. In that time, I was ‘brokered’ and then taught how to broker bodies. This is the true story of the multi-billion dollar insurance scandal within the substance abuse treatment industry.” Vertical Entertainment will release Body Brokers in theaters and on VOD on Feb. 19th, 2021.
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