Take Your Pills

Take Your Pills

What would you take to be the best?

Directed by Alison Klayman

Produced by Motto Pictures

201887 min6.5 / 10

A probing documentary investigation into the cultural and personal costs of performance-enhancing drug use in a hypercompetitive society.

In a hypercompetitive world, drugs like Adderall offer students, athletes, coders and others a way to do more -- faster and better. But at what cost?

Questions people ask

  • Is Take Your Pills violent? Barely. Less violent than 76% of films.

  • Is Take Your Pills sad? Somewhat. More sad than 70% of films.

  • Is Take Your Pills scary? Not especially. Less frightening than 65% of films.

  • Does Take Your Pills end with hope? Not especially. Less hopeful than 64% of films.

  • Is Take Your Pills easy watching? About average. Almost exactly mid-range.

These describe how the film comes across, measured across the whole film and compared with other well-known films. They are not a content list — nothing here was counted or checked scene by scene, so for age-suitability or specific content use a classification board or a dedicated content-warning service.

49/ 100

Cinnamon Score

How much this film gives you that nothing else will, and whether it delivers.

Familiar shape, done well.

Rarity61

How unlike any other film this one feels

Surprise41

How much more it delivers than it promises

Love45

How much audiences actually like it

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Ensemble

Like Take Your Pills

Nearest across the full emotional profile.

Same Mood as Take Your Pills

Nearest on what's most distinctive about this one.

Like Take Your Pills, But Darker

Similar, pushed toward heavier and more intense.

Like Take Your Pills, But Lighter

Similar, pushed toward warmer and easier.

Like Take Your Pills, But Less Popular

Same territory, far fewer people have seen it.

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