When a teenager becomes a drug addict, everything seems to be about to collapse. In New York, a teenager turned into a drug addict after suffering many mental disorders in his teens.
Only in his early 20s, Zephyr Benson makes a remarkably assured debut as writer, director and star of "Straight Outta Tompkins," his tongue-in-cheek title for his past as a middle-class drug dealer in lower Manhattan.
Straight Outta Tompkins is rarely boring, but neither does it come close to attaining the hard-hitting moral force its creator is clearly striving for.
