After Adderall(2016)

What if James Franco made a movie about your life?

After Adderall is a surreal comedy that imagines what happens when actor James Franco decides to adapt your life story into a film. The movie playfully deconstructs the real-world chain of events behind The Adderall Diaries, the 2015 film Franco starred in and produced based on Stephen Elliott's memoir. Rather than a straightforward retelling, After Adderall takes a meta approach, blending reality with absurdist humor as it explores the strange intersection of personal narrative and Hollywood adaptation. The film examines themes of identity, artistic interpretation, and the peculiar experience of watching your own story transformed on screen. It's a darkly comedic take on how memoir becomes cinema, and what gets lost—or gained—in translation.