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This movie has a lot of problems.

Briefly, it's the story of a young professional woman, Zoe, with a husband, Jason, who would be every woman's - and some men's - wet dream. He has a perfect, muscled body, a smile that could melt an iceberg, and he even washes the dishes. They have sex 2 or 3 times a day. Not a week, a day.

But it isn't enough for her. She wants more.

But more of what? That's one of the problems with this movie. There is a lot of sex in it, though none of it shocking by modern movie standards. But for all the sex, we still have to guess at what Zoe wants. Is it yet more sex? Different sex? Kinkier sex? Is this a distant cousin to *Fifty Shades of Grey* that dares not speak of its desires? Zoe hooks up with an unsubtle but muscled white painter - who, in my eyes, has no talent - and has with him what looks like pretty much the same sort of sex she had been having with her husband. Then she hooks up with a messenger on a motorcycle. Their sex, though no doubt wonderful, looks pretty much the same as what she is having with the other two men, though it usually takes place on a table.

In between all this, Zoe ignores her children and lets her work go down the drain. She is, we are to believe, a sex addict.

That's the first problem. Zoe comes across as insatiable, but not really addicted. She only has men who are so astoundingly handsome/sexy that they would tempt all but the most virtuous. Yet if this movie had been called *Insatiable*, she would have come across as a harlot rather than a sick individual to be pitied, and would have lost the sympathies of the intended audience of well-meaning 20-40 something women. If she were actually addicted to sex, she would have had sex with anyone, and that is not the case. She is only attracted to the hottest men.

The second problem is that her poor husband, Jason, evidently detects nothing once Zoe is unfaithful to him - daily. When he does finally learn he's unhappy, of course, but we know so little about him, he's so poorly developed, that we still can't sympathize with him, though he is the potentially most sympathetic character in the movie.

These actors could probably all have done a lot better if they had been given a script that had developed characters and not just cardboard cut-outs. As it is, we get to watch a lot of evidently passionate sex performed by beautiful bodies, and then at the end have to listen to a few lectures on sexual addiction, which don't come across as very convincing. Zoe's particular case is never explored, so it's hard to believe in it or feel for her.

Zoe's sexual problems with Jason needed to be made clearer. How was he failing her? Jason needs to have been given a character; it's not enough for him just to look great. The script just doesn't make any of the characters interesting and sympathetic, and that's fatal here.

A little more romantic than most recent films about sex addiction like Nymphomaniac part 1 and 2, but thankfully the movie does not dumb down the condition. Instead, simplifies it greatly.

The movie focus is on a happily married woman who fills a void in her life when an affair with another man triggers her sex addiction using a more romantic approach.

The entire cast did a good acting job. I've never seen William Levy in anything before, but I thought he played a good "Mistress" in this film. Lead actress Sharon Leal and Boris Kodjoe were also good in the movie.

Not as melodramatic as you would expect from movies like this, and it had some pretty awesome love scenes. A winning combo for me.

I would not recommend this movie to anyone unless you are interested in adult films or Porn, The story line was predictable, cliché and BORING. The movie has no excitement, the plot was simple, and not a thriller by far, the only good thing about this movie was how "Good- looking" the actors were. Many of the sex scenes were not needed...the main character is obviously sick.. the movie magnify how the main character is struggling with her addiction.. by showing her abuse the addiction over and over and over... The plot do not move beyond the point. Its like watching an obese person suffer from over eating... we have established that point..can we move on now... but the movie continue to revolve around the obsession of the addiction... which in returns bore the viewers because they are watching the same actions happen repeatedly... over and over and over again.. its like watching a 3 minute video clip over and over and over again... The plot do not expand to any dimension.. it is as flat and dry as bread... with NO BUTTER

Wow where to begin..everything about this movie is horrible, I suffered for 40 minutes through this drivel in the hopes the lead actress (Sharon Leal) would do some of her old 'Boston Public' magic and make the film worth watching, however all she did was drag an already drowning film under.

From the outset the film looks feels and sounds like a daytime soap opera, the acting is so bad I felt embarrassed for the actors. I Don't know if the producers of this crap live in the real world, but in my version psychologists do not have sessions that run all day and into the wee hours of the night....what the hell?, and since when do supposed 'successful artists' drive beat up old 68 Chev's with the paint literally peeling off?....Believe me there is NOTHING in this movie worth taking seriously.

What a shame Sharon Leal couldn't find something to actually bring her back into the light, instead of having the lights turned off and the door slammed shut.

Terrible, just terrible.

When I first saw that there was a movie coming out, I was excited and apprehensive at the same time. I've come to accept "Based on the book/novel/bestseller/etc" as a disclaimer that if you have read the book you should probably expect the movie to be LOOSELY based, with kudos given to movies who stick to the book while keeping the cinematic liberties to a minimum. But boy oh boy does this adaptation go waaaaay beyond taking liberties. Except for the characters and very few key scenes, this could have been a totally unrelated movie.

Without giving away any spoilers, basically the main character is addicted to sex, so you would think that there would be a whole lot of exposition, especially with the back drop being dialogue between the main character and a therapist. But okay, let's say you haven't read the book, or it's been a while since you have. There's so much missing as to why this woman has an addiction to sex. Why does she cheat? Why should we care that she cheats? She's painted as this spoiled and deprived woman who you don't feel sorry for,( when, in the book, there's actually a lot that went on in her past that affects her present.) There's no examination of the main character and the relationships she has.

This movie was an hour and 45 minutes. I could have maybe dealt with the other stuff that wasn't included if there was a portion devoted to her past and not the 2 and half second flashback and 1 sentence literally at the end of the movie where we're just supposed to go, "oh, it all makes sense now", and walk out satisfied.

While Addicted was erotic fiction, it still kept you on the edge of your seat because you wanted to find out what happened next. I couldn't put it down. All the movie did was show some soft core sex scenes, some violence, and then it hopped skipped and jumped to the end. If you've read the book, this isn't worth your time or money. And if you haven't, well you've been warned. Wait til it comes out on cable. It's a shame too, the cast was really let down.

Since I am an Addiction Psychologist Specialist, in training, I was forced to watch this all the way through. This is actually one case scenario I have not yet battled with any client. But I do understand the therapist in this movie and how she used addiction lingo to get her message across to her client. She got it across to me as well. As a therapist, this is a case that you would use psychoanalytic theory to get at the harbored suppressed past, and I think they actually portrayed the addiction very well. I did feel very sorry for her husband (handsome husband) who is faithful and has this kind of woman for a wife...but love does conquer all. It is not so easy in real life but the message was real and there for anyone who really is looking! Thankyou, LadyAnn68

I love movies and never walk out. I walked out of this one after sitting through a painful 40 minutes or so. It is hideously awful in every way: terrible script (written by idiotic middle school kids?), god-awful, idiotic acting and directing. It was boring to boot, even though it was supposed to be about sex addiction, and it was supposed to have beautiful people in it. It wasn't even good as porn. Actual porn is far better, even as non-porn, than this. The leading actress was not beautiful, or believable in any way. None of the actors had any credibility nor did they rescue any part of the incomprehensibly stupid script so as to make any moment seem even vaguely possible or real. Was everyone associated with this "film" a complete idiot with an IQ below 80?

I went to this movie mostly because of the show times of other movies we really wanted to see that we would have had to wait several hours for. I read one of the user's reviews and thought, "maybe not too bad" and it had the word "thriller" as in crime thriller in the IMDb heading. I thought it may be a nice twisted psycho type flick, spiced up a bit by the sexual addiction line.

"Based on the best-selling novel by Zane, ADDICTED is a sexy and provocative thriller about desire and the dangers of indiscretion."...Lions Gate Plot summary.

It was totally off the mark. Bad acting, bad scripting, bad direction. I have seldom been mislead by user reviews (often by Critics) so I was upset. Money and time totally wasted. There were only 10 others in the theater so that should have been a warning. Hopefully, I haven't given anything away here other than a warning...don't go!

Yes Sexual Addiction is a very real addiction and this movie doesn't treat it with kid's glove.....Definitely lets you know about the manipulation and hiding that can go with this disease......Definitely some good acting and even the ones who are victimized by the disease are treated fairly in how they are portrayed and they can't get off lightly either....in some cases even showing the enabling....Has a hopeful and some would say sappy ending but a definite true movie....

Lack of information? Maybe this movie director doesn't still know what means to be addicted of something? To be addicted of hot dogs or underwear? To be addicted of sex, Mr. Bille Woodruff, it means to need sex time every time with different people and doesn't mean what color race or age that person is. I was expecting that woman to be hooked by every tool she would see in her company with her artist clients, to get hooked with every man in every steps she was doing again and again with the longest and the thickest tool she ever seen. She was supposed to be sick and what i saw it was just a normal love story full of bullshits feelings that were going to pretend that these feelings are because she was addicted. She was not at all addicted of sex. She was not at all hungry for tool and to get hooked by everyone. She was supposed to grab men in the streets and to hook with them and not just to be shy and other senseless sights.

Firstly - the blurb should clearly state that the movie is about sexual addiction - as it's the type of topic that some people won't want to watch.

Next, I think the movie should have spent more time building context & getting us to relate to the main character first - before she started engaging in the distructive, erratic behaviour. Because it felt like we were watching someone ruin their perfect life (personal & worklife) for no reason. And we didn't understand why. So it didn't feel healthy to watch; or entertaining.

Lastly, the script & characters needed more depth. E.g. the Spanish guy was so unrealistic - I don't believe that anyone would be that forward straightaway & cringy too. Overall - the characters were not realistic at all.

Just to mention - I turned it off halfway (when her behaviour started to get repetitive) - but looking at the reviews it probs doesn't get better.

The "movie" was so awful that I don't want to spend some energy & time describing it. If you want to appreciate the 'bad' movies that you have watched before, just take a glance at this one. Hope you enjoy your slow death.

This is supposed to be a tale of sex addiction? Because it feels a lot more like one of those terrible Lifetime melodramas.

Synopsis: Addicted is a 2014 American erotic thriller drama film directed by Bille Woodruff from a screenplay by Christina Welsh and Ernie Barbarash, based on Zane's novel of the same name. It stars Sharon Leal, Boris Kodjoe, Tasha Smith, Tyson Beckford, Emayatzy Corinealdi, and William Levy. The film was released in the United States on October 10, 2014, by Lionsgate. It received generally negative reviews from critics.

Successful businesswoman Zoe Reynard (Sharon Leal) seems to have a charmed life. She has a wonderful, loving husband (Boris Kodjoe), two beautiful children and a thriving career. However, as perfect as her life might look to other people, Zoe is secretly tormented by nymphomania. Her need for constant sexual gratification leads her into a secretive existence -- one that, ultimately, may put her family, career and life on the line. Based on a novel by Zane.

This was without a doubt the worst movie I've ever seen. My wife and I ended up playing a game predicting all the next events, and wouldn't you know we got them all right? Addicted is a movie that seems to have been borne out of a film school class betting on how many clichés each student could put into a movie...but one student wrote some movie-cliché-mash-up software - and this was the automaton's entry! The acting was historically poor - we will measure all bad acting in the future to the psychologist in the film. We ended up laughing our tails off at the horribleness of it all while we finished our popcorn, then walked out. Bad bad bad.

I can't believe this movie gets low rating. Its a beautiful movie for me. Story line was great.

Addicted (2014) is a movie about a wife and mother going behind her husband and whole family's back to cheat with several men. She starts to see a therapist about her need for sex all the time, and she learns she's a sex addict. The acting is alright, in some scenes it can seem a little hokey or soap opera like, but most of the time it's just fine. The lead actress did do a good job, her acting is by far the best in the whole cast. The writing is spotty. In some parts the dialogue is just fine, not incredible, but it suffices. Then there are some scenes where the dialogue is pretty cheesy/melodramatic. The sexual scenes don't go overboard and they are well lit and filmed. It was good to see that the sex scenes weren't like pornographic, because I think when the sex scenes go that far it ends up taking away from the movie as a whole. I don't really know if I would suggest this movie. I'll say this. If there is nothing else on and this is on TV, it's worth a watch, but if there's something better on or you have other options, then no. 6/10.

Addicted is a 2014 American erotic drama thriller directed by Billie Woodruff starring Sharon leal, Boris Kodjoe, Tyson Beckford, Kat graham and William Levy. So the storyline is not bad as this does happen in real life as Zoe in the film being addicted to sex and how it can cause serious problems when in a relationship I think there showed that rather well in the movie with plenty of hot men lol. The acting was not the best but there did try their best to portray the characters. Very predictable In places but okay film have seen so much better though. So if you like fifty shades then you will like this just not as good. Currently streaming on Netflix right now. For adults only.