Spun

Spun (2003) Holy white powder Batman, it’s another drug movie! However this is a good one with lots of funny scenes in which drug fogged characters try to deal with reality or at least to recognize it once in a while. It also has lots of sadness in it as you can see the character’s lives being ruined by drugs and they can’t even see it coming. In fact, rational behavior for these folks is a rarity. Starring Brittany Murphy (before she became well known), Mickey Roarke (finally doing a good job in a good role) and John Leguizamo (wearing the oddest costume yet in a movie), it concerns a tweaker (Jason Schwartzman) who buys drugs from Leguizamo who gets them from the meth lab cook Roarke wholesale. Murphy and co-ingénue Mena Suvari really took a chance with this movie because the two young hotties really look bad as two tweakers who are not up on the latest personal hygiene techniques, nicely showing some of the more subtle consequences of drug use.
This is a pretty hard hitting drama with lots of comic episodes to keep you from getting too depressed. Leguizamo is a howler in one scene wearing only a sock on his _____ (like clock without so many letters) while attempting to shoot another tweaker wired by the police to collect evidence. Heck, even the police inhale on occasion in this flick. Overall, a good movie about the tragedy of drug abuse but is not for everyone. The movie is not rated but would probably get an R for: sexual situations, extreme drug abuse, nasal passage abuse, bad teeth, bad cops, meth lab explosions, drug infused illogic, toilet scenes and for the wearin o’ the sock scene.