Addicted
Addicted
R | 10 October 2014 (USA)
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A gallerist risks her family and flourishing career when she enters into an affair with a talented painter and slowly loses control of her life.

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Michael Ledo

Zoe (Sharon Leal) has the perfect professional and family life...yet she feels she has a void in her life. She is a sex addict, but a classy choosey sex addict who always wears the same bra during sex. The movie is extremely formulaic and the acting and script was dry.I am sure some people might find the subject matter interesting for one reason or another, I was bored with the cutout characters.Parental Guide: F-bomb, sex, nudity. Good male eye candy.

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Davis P

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.

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syyranoo

I really don't understand such a bad reviews and i was provoked to write one because. This movie isn't perfect, acting can be better, so the script.But the way it approached womens infidelity, it was great. This is certainly a subject that is not talked about often, a woman is unhappy in marriage, her husband is lovely, but she misses something,,and she falls for someone beautiful and exciting. Of course it is not right, of course it is not OK. But if it s a man, then everyone would cheer up, and since this is a woman, then she is a wh.... She was raped when she was little, and it emerges at the end of a movie, everything comes from childhood...I believe that this movie is perfect to watch for married couples, so they could work on their relationship always , trust each other, and talk to each other always...This could happen to everyone, so be careful , and watch the movie!!!

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viewsonfilm.com

Addicted is essentially an uneven facade that in one instance, poses as softcore porn and in another instance, becomes a documented, public service announcement for sex addiction. It's a slick, trashy, yet mildly entertaining soap opera of a movie that unbeknownst to me, goes completely off the rails in its final half hour.Directed by the guy who made Honey (2003) and Beauty Shop (2005) and based on a best selling novel of the same name, Addicted is like a carbon copy of 2002's Unfaithful. But where Unfaithful had a murder and a sored cover-up to that murder, this limited October release has a silly, kill-free twist at the end (I'm not gonna count a failed suicide as murder in case you're keeping score). It also has many more love scenes in it than Unfaithful not to mention a main character that ends up having more than just one affair.The story begins with stunning, happily married businesswoman Zoe Reynard (played by Sharon Leal). She has the perfect life. She has two great kids, a husband who thinks the world of her, a loving, caring mother who lives with her (and is quite tolerable), and a beautiful home via the outskirts of Atlanta, GA. But wait a minute, her perfect husband isn't fulfilling her everyday needs (sexually that is). He's never around and is always working. Her solution: have a series of romantic trysts with a well revered painter (Quinton Canosa played by William Levy) and a womanizing club hopper (Corey played with minimal dialogue by Tyson Beckford). This leads to her addiction by which she literally ruins her career, fractures her family values, is forced to see a shrink, and decides in anguish, to (spoiler alert) commit freeway suicide. As mentioned earlier, Addicted walks a fine line between glamorizing sexuality and reiterating a certain sickness. As a result, the proceedings are choppy and disjointed despite a surprisingly good level of unpredictability.Really in truth, this vehicle is almost saved by Sharon Leal. She gives a solid, realistically grim performance in the lead role as Addicted's disturbed test subject. As for the rest of the cast, they are comprised of mostly good looking people who's acting is not as seething or as sharp. In conclusion, this is a poster child for the effects of sex addiction and to be honest, it's not really about infidelity. Addicted in its 106 minute running time, makes two mistakes: it turns a character (Levy's Canosa) who doesn't really seem menacing enough, and makes him psychotic. The second mistake is that this thing climbs too close to becoming a therapeutic healing session for a specific audience (people that go to support groups for sex addiction or don't bother to get help at all for said addiction). And as the plot thickens, it feels less like an actual film going experience and more like a hidden cry for help. Bottom line: Addicted as a drama/thriller, may offer a certain kind of appeal. But for me, it just wasn't that "addicting".

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