Dr. Norman Weinberg

Berg Color-Tone, Inc.

March 2000

Technically...as far as toning is concerned, it's very well done. I have always believed that to do excellent toning you need to start with excellent B&W photography...that is apparent here. I'm amazed at some of the incredible tones and other effects you were able to achieve, including the split toning and other colors, especially reds, which are hard to do. Perhaps you can share your processing procedures with me at some time.

The story of growing up, innocence of youth, innocence lost and betrayed, addiction to hard drugs, the world of the drug addict, self-realization, determination and courage to climb out of the depths of addiction, the devotion of brothers, the 'tough love'...this is truly a heartfelt and touching account. The narration is wonderfully done.  Using the tools at hand...images, psychedelic toning effects, music, the narration... this extraordinary and riveting work of art, by a talented filmmaker, recreates for the viewer the surreal world of the drug addicted. I believe this film deserves the widest possible distribution. Smack will be a controversial film: but, every teenager and every drug addict as well as those touched in some way by drugs directly or indirectly...and that's all of us...should see this extraordinary film.