Addicted (Movie Review)

*Updated March 2026

The 1-4-0: Addicted is a guilty pleasure gone wrong. It’s a sex addiction film from a female perspective that falls into all the made-for-tv-movie clichés.

Addicted Movie Plot, Cast, and Review

If you’re looking for the Addicted movie plot, cast, and review, here’s the quick version: Addicted follows Zoe Reynard, a successful businesswoman with the perfect life – handsome husband, beautiful home, and great job – who risks throwing it all away because of her sex addiction. The cast is ridiculously good-looking, the movie has a polished fantasy feel, and there’s enough tabooish material here to make you think it’s going to be a slick guilty pleasure. Unfortunately, it never fully lives up to that promise.

Addicted Movie Plot

Addicted centers on Zoe Reynard, the owner of an art public relations company who seems to have it all. She has a great marriage, a handsome husband, a beautiful home, and a successful career, but she’s also battling a sex addiction that starts to pull apart the perfect life she’s built. What follows is a series of risky choices and preposterous events that threaten to destroy everything.

Addicted Movie Cast

The cast of Addicted includes Sharon Leal, Boris Kodjoe, William Levy, Tyson Beckford, Tasha Smith, and Kat Graham.

Addicted Movie Review

Addicted has all the ingredients of a guilty pleasure: a ridiculously attractive cast ensemble, explicit sexual scenes, upscale fantasy-living, and the promise of something deliciously trashy and entertaining. But the flow is erratic, and that’s where it loses itself.

It starts off like it wants to be in the tradition of Fatal Attraction, Indecent Proposal, or Basic Instinct, then turns into a retread cliché of a thriller before trying to become a serious psychological examination of sexual addiction. Which one is it? It never quite decides, and that’s what kills it.

The Gist: The owner of an art public relations company has a perfect life – a great marriage with a handsome husband, home, and job, but… she has a sex addiction. Will she control it before it destroys her perfect life?

What Works: Apart from the ridiculously good-looking cast ensemble, director Bille Woodruff does a wonderful job of crafting a sense of life fantasy that one wishes they could walk right into. Unlike so many Hispanic films that mostly depict Latinos as immigrants crossing the border (Frontera, Under The Same Moon, etc.), subservience or subordinates, this adaptation places its cast in professional upscale jobs, affluent homes, and go-getter friends. Add on the amped explicit sexual scenes and the idea of tabooish, immoral scenarios, and Addicted had potential… but why doesn’t it live up to its promise?

What Doesn’t Work: In addition to the preposterous and far-fetched series of events that make you want to pull your hair out, the flow of Addicted is erratic. It doesn’t know what it wants to be. It begins as a guilty pleasure along the lines of Fatal Attraction, Indecent Proposal, Basic Instinct, but it turns into a retread cliché of a thriller, then a committed psychological examination of sexual addiction. Which one is it? Many movies have tried to tackle the issue of sex addiction such as Thanks For Sharing, amongst others, but most ultimately turnout becoming implausible and vexing, just like this one.

Pay or Nay? Nay. With so many great thrillers out in theaters with WAY MORE heft, depth, and substance such as Gone Girl, The Equalizer, or The Two Faces of January, why spend your money and time on a cheap made-for-tv movie?