Once called “the miracle on the beach,” Synanon began in the 1960s as

an experimental rehab facility in Santa Monica, California with a radical claim: It could cure

heroin addiction. Before long, it would make an even bolder claim: It could cure any of your

problems. All you had to do was move in. What started in a house on the beach, soon spread to

compounds across the country. The man who made the miracle happen, Charles E. Dederich,

aka “Chuck,” would be the one to destroy it all, along with the lives of many of his followers and

millions of dollars in assets. The Sunshine Place tells the mind-blowing, true-story of Synanon -

one of America’s most cutting edge social experiments, turned into one of its most dangerous

and violent cults - as it’s never been told before: by the people who lived it. Executive Produced

by Robert Downey Jr., Susan Downey, and Emily Barclay Ford for Team Downey and

C13Originals, together with Josh McLaughlin for Wink Pictures and written, produced, and

directed by Peabody-nominated C13Originals, a Cadence13 Studio.

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