The Adderall Diaries is a 2015 American crime thriller film written and directed by Pamela Romanowsky, based on a "true-crime memoir" book of the same name by Stephen Elliott. The underlying true crime is the Hans Reiser murder case. The film stars James Franco, Ed Harris, Amber Heard and Christian Slater. Author Stephen Elliot has a fascination with a high-profile murder case which leads him to his own troubled past. The case brings him to a new romance with Lana Edmond, and to confront his issues with his abusive father Neil.