The Boost
Imagine having all the power, passion and pleasure money can buy. Now imagine losing them.
Directed by Harold Becker
Produced by Hemdale Film Corporation, Columbia Pictures
A cautionary descent into cocaine addiction and financial ruin that traces one man's loss of control and self through escalating drug use and desperation.
Lenny Brown moves to California to find his fortune in tax shelter investments. When the federal government changes the tax laws, poor Lenny finds himself $700,000 in hock with nowhere to turn. His friend, Joel, introduces him to cocaine to give Lenny that needed "boost". What ensues next is a descent into drug addiction and insanity as Lenny tries to regain control of his life, all the while needing that extra "boost".
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