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Jun 2, 2023 · Boyle traces the rise of the crisis, breaking down its chilling history with easily digestible facts and figures, through the story of her relationship with her sister Jordan, who overcame an opioid addiction a decade earlier.
When a young woman turns to the camera for refuge, she ends up with a firsthand account of what will become the deadliest man-made epidemic in United States history. Thirty years in the making, Anonymous Sister is two-time Emmy Award® winning director, Jamie Boyle's chronicle of her family's collision with the opioid epidemic.
May 26, 2023 · We discuss the opioid epidemic through the frame of the incredible documentary Anonymous Sister, directed by Jamie Boyle, produced by Marilyn Ness, and executive produced by Julie Stampler.
Jun 2, 2023 · 100% Tomatometer 6 Reviews. When a young woman turns to the camera for refuge, she ends up with a firsthand account of what will become the deadliest man-made epidemic in United States...
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Jun 2, 2023 · The title, Anonymous Sister, refers to Jamie, who, as she points the camera at her family, is rarely in front of it. There are even moments when, as a young child, she would cap the camera when it turns on her.
2021. USA. Duration: 93 mins. Overview. Years before the term “opioid epidemic” became commonplace, Jamie Boyle watched her sister and mother both succumb to an unknown, unnamed illness. As a way to process what was happening, she picked up her camera and started filming.
Filmed over thirty years, Anonymous Sister is director, Jamie Boyle’s chronicle of her family’s fall into opioid addiction, providing a poignant and timely study of what it means to experience life in all its beauty and pain.
