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Johnny Hickey Born April 1982 in Charlestown, MA - Boston native Johnny Hickey morphed from street bandit, to award winning film maker and actor. In the recent years, his feature-length opiate tragedy film, "Oxy Morons", had a successful two-month test screening at Showcase Cinemas in New England, where it placed second in the theater's box-office sales in its first week of showing against eighteen studio films. Moving on from there it's distribution had a successful Netflix home for eighteen months with well over 200,000 (praised reviews). "Oxy Morons" currently finds its homes on Amazon Prime VOD Platform as well as Xfinity On Demand Comcast Cable TV reaching over 30 Million Nationwide.

Hickey was a field producer for Vanguard correspondent Mariana Van Zeller who reached out to Hickey after reading about his writing and directing the autobiographic "Oxy Morons". The Current TV team had already started to investigate opiate subculture around Greater Boston, but hit a wall in accessing the underworld where pills are sold and trafficked. Hickey agreed to assist. In the least, he could help sound alarms about the epidemic that's poisoned countless people in his universe.[1]

Mainstream media regards Hickey as one of Boston's most colorful characters — that's vividly illustrated in the Vanguard documentary. But the latest leg of his journey involves his Non-Profit F.I.G.H.T. (Film Intervention of Getting High Team) which is run along side the Boston Institute for Non-Profit Journalism. Hickey delivers the F.I.G.H.T. message taking his cult film along with his unique story to deter prescription opiate abuse and heroin to high schools, colleges, adolescents, and peers with inspiration that his film showcases the collateral damage this current drug epidemic has caused.

Johnny is currently in post production with Sugar Studios L.A. on his second feature film "Habit" starring MTV's Chris Tamburello aka "CT". Johnny is also the creator of the story "Shopper" written by Greg Meadows and in pre-production with VFX Executive Producer Scott Michelson.

​View Johnny's IMDB Page here View Johnny's Website Here Early Life Career "Oxy - Morons" Plot:

"The Hickey brothers don't know much about life outside the projects. No strangers to the havoc caused by crime and drug use, Jason and Danny are forever haunted by the untimely death of their bank robber father which left their family desolate. When the boys' mother cones hone with a new prescription painkiller, the two are introduced to one tiny pill that would forever change their lives. As they quickly find themselves at the height of Boston's Oxycontin drug trade, tge brothers and their ferociously loyal crew try to hold stable ground as their lives, and the lives of everyone around them, begin to crumble.

Based on the life of reformed drug pusher and user John Hickey, "Oxy-Morons" is an explosive, graphic film delivering an edge-of-your-seat story that both entertains and exposes the harsh realities of Charlestown's Oxycontin epidemic.

Hickey wrote, directed, and stars along with an authentic cast of Charlestown locals, bringing a shocking sense of realism like no other film about Boston's neighborhood culture."

The gritty true-life story of a notorious Boston criminal and his gang who, driven by addiction and greed, commit a series of dangerous robberies during the height of the OxyContin drug trade. [2]

When Johnny Hickey first cold-called DigBoston more than five years ago looking for us to write about him, he was a twenty-something Charlestown tough with an unlikely story: He had survived a plummet into the Quincy quarries, the end result of a drug deal gone wrong, and was determined to make a film to share his opiate experience with the world.

Fast-forward to 2014, and Hickey’s 2012 debut, OxyMorons, is a Hulu and Netflix sensation with cult status among rehabbers and indie gore fiends alike. The grimy tale of Oxycontin deals and prison life in Mass has also found a second life: Hickey and his crew have toured the movie all across the country teaching crowds about the perils of abuse.

As Charlestown loses more authenticity by the minute to the yuppie invasion, OxyMorons should be placed in a time capsule alongside The Town so as to cautiously preserve a storied criminal past. While the latter reflects the old-school bank-robbing years, Hickey’s comparably dark story comes out of the drug-addled era that continues today.

This opportunity to view OxyMorons on the big screen is one worth taking up, so long as you don’t mind the grisly Boston cityscapes and ruthless jail scenes burning deep into your brain matter. Hickey will also be on-hand for a Q&A and reception afterward, fitting for anybody interested in ballsy realistic Boston flicks or the ongoing fight against opiates in New England.[3]

"Oxy-Morons" is a graphic film that chronicles the devastation done to individuals, families, and communities when the prescription drug Oxycontin falls into the wrong hands. Based on the life of reformed drug pusher and user John Hickey, "Oxy-Morons" brings to the screen the harsh reality of Oxycontin and the irreversible damage it has done to Boston and beyond.[4]

"Habit"

Oxy Morons writer-director returns with a drug-addled North Shore gore fest
Currently in post production. More info to come.

F.I.G.H.T. There are a number of vehicles through which recovering substance abusers express themselves as a coping mechanism. Charlestown native Johnny Hickey, the star, writer, and director of the Boston indie anti-drug movie "Oxy Morons", found salvation through filmmaking, and along with his team from Mood Swing Moving Pictures will provide opportunities for aspiring creatives and journalists to participate in front of and behind the camera.

In addition to serving as a mentorship program through which young people will learn about employment opportunities in the entertainment and media industries, the content produced by F.I.G.H.T. will push the envelope for how the opiate crisis is covered in Greater Boston. Unlike the impersonal outsider approach taken by mainstream news outlets, the segments produced in our program will reveal the ugly underbelly of affairs to build awareness around the collateral damage of opiate abuse.

So that F.I.G.H.T. material is disseminated as wide and as far as possible, in addition to distributing through their own film and web channels, for this project Hickey and Mood Swing are collaborating with the Boston Institute for Nonprofit Journalism (BINJ for short), which will distribute segments on television and radio, and also generate print and online versions of stories told by participants in recovery.

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REFERENCES[edit source] Jump up ^ Demo-Reel-Videos (2011-11-15), Current TV with Johnny Hickey, retrieved 2017-11-03 Jump up ^ "Oxy-Morons (2010) - IMDbPro". pro-labs.imdb.com. Retrieved 2017-11-03. Jump up ^ "CHARLESTOWN DRUG FLICK 'OXYMORONS' KEEPS THE WAR ON OPIATES RAGING". DigBoston. 2014-12-05. Retrieved 2017-11-03. Jump up ^ Oxy-morons, retrieved 2017-11-03 Jump up ^ "EXCLUSIVE: HICKEY'S NEW HABIT". DigBoston. 2017-01-11. Retrieved 2017-11-03.