Director: Bryan Greenberg
Three vantage points on America's opioid epidemic collide in Junction, a 2024 thriller that trades a single hero for a pharmaceutical executive, a treating physician, and a patient caught in the fallout.
What is Junction about?
Rather than following one protagonist toward a tidy resolution, Junction cuts between a pharmaceutical CEO under pressure to keep numbers up, a doctor whose prescribing decisions carry consequences she cannot fully see, and a patient whose dependency puts a face on the statistics. Sophia Bush, Jamie Chung, and director Bryan Greenberg (who also stars) anchor a cast that also includes Griffin Dunne, Josh Peck, Hill Harper, Ryan Eggold, and Ashley Madekwe. The film moves between boardrooms, exam rooms, and homes to trace how a public health crisis was built out of ordinary decisions made by people who rarely meet each other.
Cast & crew
Bryan Greenberg directs and takes a role in front of the camera, working alongside Sophia Bush and Jamie Chung in the film's three central threads. Griffin Dunne and Hill Harper round out a supporting bench that leans on ensemble drama rather than a single lead performance to carry the story.
Context & significance
Junction arrived in 2024 as one of several English-language dramas using a fractured, multi-perspective structure to examine the opioid crisis, a subject that has generated a wave of films and series over the past several years. Its 98-minute runtime keeps the focus tight on three interlocking accounts rather than a sprawling timeline. By splitting the narrative between boardroom, clinic, and household, the film resists assigning blame to any single villain, instead asking viewers to weigh how incentives at each level of the system reinforce one another.
Where & how to watch
Junction is available to watch on K-Time with a free account login, presented with a Farsi-language interface and Persian dubbing and subtitles for viewers who prefer to follow the film in Persian.