The
HBO America Undercover Documentary
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 filmmakers lived, over the course of 18 months. 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. Both couples in the film 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.
2006
Emmy Nomination for Best Documentary
