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Extraordinary behind-the-scenes access reveals a drug company's fevered race to develop the first FDA-approved Viagra for women - and offers a humorous but sobering look inside the cash-fueled pharmaceutical industry.
- DIRECTOR
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- Elizabeth Canner
- WRITER
- STUDIOS
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- Astrea Media
- Chicken And Egg Pictures
- WEBSITE
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- WWW.ORGASMINC.ORG/
- CAST
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Elizabeth Canner as Herself - Narrator (as Liz Canner) -
Darby Stephens as Herself - Manager of Clinical Research, Vivus -
Virgil Place as Himself - Founder, Vivus -
Leland Wilson as Himself - President & CEO, Vivus -
Kim Airs as Herself - Owner, Grand Opening -
Susan Bennett as Herself - Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
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Filmmaker Liz Canner takes a job editing erotic videos for a drug trial for a pharmaceutical company. Her employer is developing what they hope will be the first Viagra drug for women that wins FDA approval to treat a new disease: Female Sexual Dysfunction (FSD). Liz gains permission to film the company for her own documentary. Initially, she plans to create a movie about science and pleasure but she soon begins to suspect that her employer, along with a cadre of other medical companies, might be trying to take advantage of women (and potentially endanger their health) in pursuit of billion dollar profits. ORGASM INC. is a powerful look inside the medical industry and the marketing campaigns that are literally and figuratively reshaping our everyday lives around health, illness, desire -- and that ultimate moment: orgasm.
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