"The war on drugs may have temporarily lost ground to the war on terror, but the rehab drama is here to stay. 'Over the G W,' Nick Gaglia’s lean yet harrowing dramatization of his own experiences with drug rehabilitation in the late 1990s, follows a troubled brother and sister (George Gallagher and Kether Donohue) as they are removed from their Bronx home and committed to a New Jersey treatment center by their well-meaning parents.

As an expected 30-day stay stretches to two years, the siblings are systematically brainwashed into a state of abject fear by cultlike staff members and the center’s menacing director (Albert Insinnia). Imprisoned and physically abused, the inmates are encouraged to inform on their erstwhile 'druggie friends' and persuaded of their inability to survive outside the clinic. These scenes, remarkable in their restraint, strikingly capture the gradual erosion of free will and the seductiveness of tipping from rebellion to compliance.

Interweaving gritty black-and-white with saturated color — a sickly yellow-green for inside the center and throbbing reds and blues outside — “Over the G W” is a disturbing look at reprogramming that masquerades as rehabilitation. Having been forced to drink the Kool-Aid, Mr. Gaglia has produced a work that’s as much an act of emesis as of filmmaking." - Jeannette Catsoulis, New York Times

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