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Recovery Boys

2018 documentary film by Elaine McMillion Sheldon

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionFeb 18, 2026
Entity authorityQ55262658 ↗
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Recovery Boys is a 2018 documentary film directed by Elaine McMillion Sheldon. It revolves around four men as they try to reinvent their lives at Jacob's Ladder at Brookside Farm after years of drug abuse.

The film was released by Netflix on June 29, 2018.

Premise

Recovery Boys follows four residents (Jeff, Rush, Adam, and Ryan) during their time at Jacob's Ladder at Brookside Farm. Jacob's Ladder is a long-term residential recovery program for men, situated in a private farming community. The documentary shows the realities of addiction for both the men struggling with addiction and of their relatives.

Release

It was released on June 29, 2018 on Netflix streaming.

References

External links

Recovery Boys. Netflix.

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This entry incorporates text from “Recovery Boys” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.