2005 Wisconsin Film Festival: Choosing film screens over sunscreen

Michael Moore plans to take on the health care industry next year with his weapon of choice, the sledgehammer documentary.

Madison native Kathleen Slattery-Moschkau, a pharmaceutical sales rep for a decade, takes a different approach to exposing what she sees as the profit-driven deception in her old job. "Side Effects" is not a documentary, but a romantic comedy about a sales rep (Katherine Heigl) torn between her ethics (embodied by her new boyfriend) and her hefty paycheck (embodied by her new BMW).

The film deftly mixes in intriguing information about how the industry really operates amidst the drama. It's already caught the interest of the national media, with Slattery-Moschkau doing interviews in USA Today and on CNN.

The Capital Times - April 4th, 2005

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