Desc: Placebo: Directed by Nick Slatkin. With Joe Estevez, Kodi Kitchen, Rayan Lawrence, Christina July Kim. Placebo follows eight early/mid twenty-something men and women as they enter a clinical testing for insomnia. For three days, and one thousand dollars a day, The Research Group places the eight subjects in a secluded location for three days, after they have taken the pill and spent one night in their quarantine facility.