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Based on a true story. Mike Weiss (Chris Evans) is a brilliant but self-destructive Houston attorney whose drug addiction threatens to destroy his career. When he and his law partner Paul Danziger (Mark Kassen) take on a case involving a nurse injured by a contaminated needle, they uncover a $130 billion medical supply monopoly that has been blocking a life-saving safety
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- valjean246o1on TMDB · Jul 202610/10
**A True Story That Changed an Industry** What makes Puncture remarkable isn't just Chris Evans' performance — it's that the story is real, and the man who lived it produced the film himself. Paul Danziger, the Houston attorney who was Mike Weiss's law partner, served as Executive Producer and brought his own case to the screen with unflinching honesty. In 1998, Danziger and Weiss — two young attorneys working out of a small personal injury practice in Houston, Texas — filed a federal antitrust lawsuit on behalf of Retractable Technologies against Becton Dickinson and the hospital Group Purchasing Organizations (GPOs) that had conspired to block Thomas Shaw's life-saving retractable safety syringe from reaching American hospitals. The case exposed a system where five GPOs controlled 90% of hospital purchasing and accepted billions in kickbacks to maintain exclusive contracts with the dominant syringe manufacturer. When Mike Weiss died of a drug overdose on October 2, 1999, at age 32, Paul Danziger carried the fight alone. The case ultimately settled for $100 million in 2004, and the litigation directly contributed to the passage of the Needlestick Safety and Prevention Act, signed
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Cast
- Chris EvansMike Weiss
- Mark KassenPaul Danziger
- Michael BiehnRed
- Vinessa ShawNurse Vicky Rogers
- Kate BurtonSenator O'Reilly
- Brett CullenNathaniel Price
- Marshall BellJeffrey Dancort
- Jesse L. MartinDaryl King
- Jennifer Blanc-BiehnStephany (as Jennifer Blanc)
- Paris SmithKia (12)
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- Adam KassenDirector
- Mark KassenDirector
- Chris LopataWriter
- Helge GerullDirector of Photography
- Ryan Ross SmithOriginal Music Composer
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