Side Effects is a romantic comedy about the pharmaceutical industry starring Katherine Heigl

Katherine Heigl

Katherine Marie Heigl is an American actress and producer. She is possibly best known for her role as Dr. Izzie Stevens on ABC's Grey's Anatomy from 2005 to 2010, for which she won a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress – Drama Series in 2007...

 as Karly Hert, a pharmaceutical "detailer", who becomes disillusioned with the lack of ethics in the pharmaceutical industry and has tough choices to make. Also starring Lucian McAfee, Dorian DeMichele, Dave Durbin, Temeceka Harris

Temeceka Harris

Temeceka Harris was born in Mound Bayou, Mississippi on January 16, 1975. She grew up in Kenosha, Wisconsin. She played Grace in the 2005 movie Side Effects. She is now working with youth at her local church.-External links:...

. The movie's title is a reference to the medical term side effects

Adverse effect

In medicine, an adverse effect is a harmful and undesired effect resulting from a medication or other intervention such as surgery.An adverse effect may be termed a "side effect", when judged to be secondary to a main or therapeutic effect. If it results from an unsuitable or incorrect dosage or...

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Author

The film was written and directed by ex-pharmaceutical sales rep Kathleen Slattery-Moschkau. The movie is loosely based on Kathleen's decade of working for the pharmaceutical industry. Katherine Heigl

Katherine Heigl

Katherine Marie Heigl is an American actress and producer. She is possibly best known for her role as Dr. Izzie Stevens on ABC's Grey's Anatomy from 2005 to 2010, for which she won a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress – Drama Series in 2007...

executive produced the film.