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In the gratuitously-Orwellian not-too-distant rotoscoped future, “Substance D” is a very popular street drug that causes its users to develop split personalities. Fred (Keanu Reeves), an undercover Orange County narcotics officer and a Substance D addict, investigates Bob, a suspected high-up-the-food-chain dealer — his other self.

This film does not delve into the clichéd gangsta-bling-bling high-rolling lifestyle of a Southern-Californian drug kingpin; it instead explores the social aspects of drug addiction — the day-to-day life of a group of junkies, and the undercover officer planted amongst them.

	Body count: one junkie.
	Handguns: one, fired by high junkies in their backyard. No drive-bys (is this really Los Angeles?) or dramatic drug-kingpin takedowns.
	Assault rifles: one insignificant cameo appearance by LAPD SWAT.
	Dialogue: the lack of gunfights, car chases, explosions, and gangsta-bling-bling has to get evened out somehow …