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Pills Unlimited
199028 min 44 secFilm: Documentary
Direction: Sylvie Van Brabant
Production: Chantal BowenGinny StikemanRina FraticelliJosée Baudet
Script: Sylvie Van Brabant
Produced by the National Film Board of Canada with the financial assistance of the Federal Women's Film Program.
Why do so many eldery women believe in health dispensed from the vast supplies of the pharmacy? Is it possible to convince elderly women that they can eat well, sleep well, and maintain their zest for life, without drugs? In Pills Unlimited, young and old unite in the search for answers to these important questions. From a classroom where students are asked to research the subject to a doctor's office, and from a seniors' centre to a grandmother's apartment, the film explores the growing proplem of over-medication of the elderly.
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Subject categories
- Health and Medicine > Drugs (Medicinal Use)SeniorsWomen
- Women > Elderly WomenHealth and Illness
- Seniors > Health and IllnessWomen
- Industry and Commerce > Pharmaceutical industries
Credits
- director
- Sylvie Van Brabant
- script
- Sylvie Van Brabant
- producer
- Chantal Bowen
- executive producer
- Ginny Stikeman
- Rina Fraticelli
- Josée Baudet
- camera
- François Beauchemin
- sound
- Esther Auger
- Diane Carrière
- editing
- Pierre Bernier
- sound editing
- André Galbrand
- re-recording
- Jean-Pierre Joutel
- animation
- Francine Desbiens
- music
- Claude de Chevigny