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These days, the number of indies premiering on a weekly basis can be both thrilling and intimidating. To help sift through the number of new releases (independent or otherwise), we've created the Weekly Film Guide. Below you'll find basic plot, personnel and cinema information for today's fresh offerings.  Happy viewing! Here are the films opening theatrically in the U.S. today, Friday, April 11th. Synopses provided by distributor unless listed otherwise. --- The Anonymous People Director: Greg D. Williams Cast: Interviews with Chris Herren, Kristen Johnson, Tara Conner, William Cope Moyers, Patrick Kennedy, Jim Ramstad Synopsis: "The addiction recovery advocacy movement questions the approach the U.S. has taken in regards to addiction: criminalizing a health condition, marginalizing those impacted, and giving superficial treatment to the chronic illness of addiction. This failure has resulted in an annual price tag of over $350 billion, lost lives and disrupted families...

The Anonymous People Kino Lorber Director: Greg Williams Screenplay: Aaron Cohen, Jeff Reilly, Greg Williams Cast: Kristen Johnston, Chris Herren, Patrick Kennedy, Tara Conner, William Cope Moyers, Jim Ramstad, William White, Laurie Dhue Screened at: Review 2, NYC, 3/5/14 Opens: March 14, 2014 In much the way that Stephen Farber’s exciting documentary “How to Survive a Plague” deals with the struggle to get politicians involved in finding an effective treatment for AIDS, Greg Williams’s “The Anonymous People” runs with efforts to change the way we deal with folks addicted to drugs and alcohol. The overriding theme is that is in most states, the push is to arrest, prosecute and punish [ Read More ]

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