Wood is one of these so-called “body brokers” and brings the recovered Utah into the game. A new breed of scam artist has arrived on the scene to grab as much of that money as possible by getting patients into the beds at rehab clinics by any means necessary where their insurance can be billed for outrageous costs ($2,000 for a simple urine test) that they, and sometimes the patients themselves, will receive kickbacks on. At certain points, a narrator ( Frank Grillo) cuts in to inform viewers that the rehab industry, as the result of ACA provisions, has boomed in recent years-pulling in more than $12 million dollars a year in the Southern California area alone.
Inspiring enough, I suppose, but during this tale of recovery the film’s real story slowly takes shape. With the help of a counsellor ( Melissa Leo) and the support of aide May ( Jessica Rothe), he begins the slow road to recovery. Wood flies him out to Los Angeles and gets him into a rehab center. Opal immediately spurns the offer but Utah, who has been having second thoughts about the life he has been living, agrees to give it a shot. One day, while hanging out, they meet Wood ( Michael Kenneth Williams), a guy who recognizes their lifestyle all too well, buys them lunch, and offers to help them get into a treatment program so that they can clean up their lives as he himself did several years earlier.
Utah ( Jack Kilmer) and Opal ( Alice Englert) are two young junkies living on the streets of a small Ohio town, robbing convenience stores and hooking in order to fund their habits. To make the frustration even worse, the film from writer/director John Swab has just enough going for it to keep you watching, with increasingly vain hope that it might finally start to click. Instead, viewers will come away with more annoyance at the movie than outrage over what it is trying to say. "Body Brokers" tells the kind of story that should leave you quaking with anger afterwards.
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