Addict
Directed by Andy Serkis
based on the best-selling book
by Stephen Smith
Addict, the most amazing true life story ever told, has captured the hearts of readers all over the world.
In his autobiography, Stephen Smith has given a most revealing insight into the inner tormented mind of an addict. At the age of fourteen, caught stealing, he was locked in an asylum and after being sexually molested by a doctor, he was given his first amphetamine tablet.
What followed, beginning with his involvement as a school boy apprentice in the Sophia Loren jewel robbery, was a 20 year roller coaster ride to hell on earth.
Taking up to 100 tablets a day in a bizarre life of crime and lunacy, he fell from being a millionaire playboy living in a mansion with fast cars and horses, to sleeping in a Salvation Army Mission. He ended up living in the streets for over five years, sleeping with the winos in shop doorways.
Addict the book tells all the robberies, the gangsters, and how Stephen, drugged to the eyeballs, hid hundreds of thousands of pounds all over London.
Today Stephen is a successful property developer and is married with two teenage sons. Read how, destitute in the gutter, he fell in love and step by step climbed back to life.
Addict is a story of ruination and a story of recovery, a story of destitution but most of all a story of hope. Addict is a story of living proof that no matter how low we go, we can, with love climb back.
