The Renaud Brothers Critically Acclaimed HBO Documentary Film
Dope Sick Love (2005) is the story of two drug addicted young couples living on the streets of New York City. What you see is what the Renaud Brothers lived, over the course of 18. With no music, and no narration, Dope Sick Love is cinema verite at its rawest and most pure form. No film has ever taken the viewer this far, and this close, into a life of crime, drugs, and addiction.
From weeklong drug binges and uncensored sexual prostitution to family members who have lost hope, Dope Sick Love shows it all. The couples in the film–Matt and Tracy, and Sebastian and Michele– claim to be in love, but their relationships are at the mercy of drugs, and the lifestyle that addiction demands. All attempts to get clean end in failure, while the couples desperately try to hold on to the only thing meaningful they have left on the streets, each other.
Dope Sick Love was nominated for an Emmy Award for Best Documentary Film in 2006.
