Movies about Alcoholism

[one2many]

Hi Guys,

I know we used to have a thread on this subject but for the life of me I cannot find it so decided to do a new one.
For me, it is a subject I am very interested in, not just because I had a problem with drink but because the whole area of addiction fascinates me...so diverse in its severity but all the same in it's commen theme.

Anyhoo, I was looking for a list of such movies and this is the best and most comprehensive I could find. I now have a long list of movies to download lol...

Some of these films deal with drug addiction but the main theme is alcoholism.

If any of you have seen any..maybe you can leave a review letting us know what you thought about it and if it is worth watching!!


ilms Made and Distributed in the United States on Alcoholism, Drugs, &/or Recovery


1. 1935: “Marijuana - Assassin of Youth.”In the mold of "Reefer Madness" this campy "I Told You So" expose shows what can--and will--happen when a girl smokes weed: her life goes down the tubes! Hilarious exploitation scare film showing good girls turning into fiends after smoking wacky weed. Some versions had the moonlight nude scenes cut. A.K.A. "Assassin of Youth." Luana Walters stars. 74 min.
2. 1936: “Marihuana: Weed with Roots in Hell. “ Film by Dwain Esper who exploited mental illness, v.d. and more during the 1930’s. Poster promises “weird orgies,” “wild parties,” and “unleashed passions.” Showed nudity as part of the “expose.” Cast contains no one who was ever noted before or heard from again. Part of “Hollyweird” period.
3. 1937: “The Cocaine Fiends” (also “The Pace That Kills”). A strident, scare-them-off film, like “Reefer Madness,” below. An brother and sister go to the big city. The sister is introduced to cocaine under the guise of “headache powder” by a member of the mob. The young girl and her brother, both innocents to big city and drug using lives, become addicted. Heavily moralizing. Like earlier films, evil powers are imputed to the drug.
4. 1938: “Reefer Madness,” with an unknown cast! It’s strident, moralizing tone
has made it a cult, comedic favorite. It represents the “moralization” of drugs and
alcohol that typified the era. Never heard of anyone in the cast, then or later.
Heavily moralizing; evil powers are attributed to the drug.
5. 1945: “The Lost Weekend” (Ray Milland). Early articulation of an uncontrollable, self-destructive, alcoholic binge. An innovative depiction of alcoholic isolation, secrecy (e.g. hidden bottles), demons, and frenzy. The wife (Jane Wyman) is a classic female enabler and the ending offers nearly a magic cure based on sudden insight and self-will. The Director, Billy Wilder, anticipated the “disease concept” in the drunkenness and blackouts that follow the first drink.
6. 1947: “Smash-Up: The Story of a Woman” with Susan Hayward (see below) as a nightclub singer whose life and marriage and placed on hold while she invests in her husband’s career. Her life descends into alcoholism as his career takes off. Rather a gender reversal of “A Star is Born” with the primary character descending to a true alcoholic “bottom.”
7. 1951: Night into Morning.” Small-town professor loses family in fire, becomes out-of-control and self-destructive (suicidal) alcoholic. No specific treatments noted. Attribution is to the tragedy and not to a weakness or moral condition. Ray Milland (see “Lost Weekend” above) gives good performance.
8. 1951: “Come Fill the Cup.” News reporter (James Cagney) is sacked for
drinking. Later gets straight and hires 3 former alcoholics on his staff while still living with his friend Charley who is an alcoholic. Helps a young man through D.T.’s. Good film on the path of alcoholism. Also with Raymond Massey, Jackie Gleason and Gig Young. Film reflects A.A. precepts: permanent illness and the need to help others in order to stay sober.
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Note: with “Come Back Little Sheba” and “Something to Live For” in 1952

came the first extensive introduction of A.A. in the way of “12th Step Calls,”

meetings, slogans, prayers and birthday celebrations.

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9. 1952: “Come Back Little Sheba.” Tremendous film depicting a Dr., active in
A.A., who has blamed his drinking and diversion from his career on his long
suffering wife (Shirley Booth). Doc gets jealous and abusive with his wife, ending
up drunk and physically violent. Path breaking. Tremendous acting.
10. 1952: “Something to Live For.” An actress is guided by an Alcoholics
Anonymous member to control her alcoholism and her feelings of rejection
Ray Milland in another film on debilitating alcoholism. An early reference to A.A.
Along with “Come Back Little Sheba” of the same year.
11. 1954: “The Country Girl.” Story about an alcoholic entertainer’s (Bing Crosby)
attempt to overcome his addiction to booze, make a professional comeback, and save his relationship with his long suffering wife (Grace Kelly). This is remade for television in 1982 with Faye Dunaway and Dick Van Dyke.
12. 1955: “The Man with the Golden Arm,” Tame by today’s standards, this was
an extraordinarily path breaking narrative about a musician’s (Frank Sinatra) addiction to heroin. Frankie Machine (Sinatra) is a drummer with a crippled wife.
He recovers sweating it out by himself; a type of “heroic” individual effort.
13. 1955: “I’ll Cry Tomorrow.” The life of Broadway's Lillian Roth, who sank into
alcoholism and then recovered:. Academy Award Nominations: 4, including Best Actress--Susan Hayward. Richard Conte is the caddish husband; Eddie Albert is the A.A. volunteer who lifts her up. Recovers in A.A.
14. 1956: “The Bottom of the Bottle.” Story an two brothers, one an alcoholic and
ex-offender who embarrasses his sober brother, and leaves for Mexico to
escape. Great old time cast: Van Johnson, Joseph Cotton & Ruth Roman.
15. 1957: “Monkey on My Back,” the story of welterweight boxing champion, Barney Ross (Cameron Mitchell) whose ring career is interrupted by W.W.II during which he contracted malaria, became addicted to morphine & hits a low bottom upon return. Graphically depicted, Ross later sued for defamation of character.r />16. 1958: “Voice in the Mirror.”An artist takes to drink after the death of his daughter. Resists interventions by wife and doctor. Finds the strength he needs to stay on the wagon with the help of a fellow alcoholic. Male AA-Like person.Great cast: Richard Egan, Walter Matthau, Julie London.
17. 1958: “Too Much, Too Soon.” Dorothy Malone as Diana Barrymore who stays away from her alcoholic father during his lifetime only to turn to excessive drinking and numerous marriages and suicide attempts. Treatment center. A “moral” ending with Barrymore in recovery. This is an early portrayal of children and their experiences in alcoholic/drug abusing family settings.
18. 1962: “The Days of Wine and Roses.” Academy award winner with Jack Lemmon and Lee Remick, articulating the addictive plunges into alcoholism and mutual, interpersonal risks of husband and wife use as one drags the other to the bottom. Brief introduction to AA by a visiting member.


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Note: Starting in the mid-1960’s, the films shift from alcohol abuse/addiction

drug excesses – both use and sale. This is a gradual, not an immediate or total shift (e.g. “Payday”) but the change in genre of substances portrayed is evident.


19. 1967: “The Trip.”This film is, itself, a “trip.” Peter Fonda is a TV executive on an acid odyssey (before LSD was illegal!) with Dennis Hopper as a hippie drug dealer & Bruce Dern as a guru drug-wise counselor. Some of the musicians played with Hendrix. Also Peter Bogdonovich and Susan Strasberg. Heady.
20. 1971: “The Panic in Needle Park.” Psychic perils of the addict, especially trust, selfishness and self-absorption in drug-centered relationships. The graphic shooting-up scenes led to a delay in the film’s distribution after some cosmetic changes were made. (Al Pacino – 1st starring role, Raul Julia, Kitty Winn.)
21. 1972: “Superfly.” Tremendously innovative film for 1972; “Priest” (aka Superfly, Ron O’Neal) is a coke dealer in Harlem who desires to make a one million dollar score, leave and start clean. Tremendous music score by Curtis Mayfield. (Note: “Superfly TNT,” 1973, deals more with international intrigue; “Return of Superfly, 1990, depicts, again, drug dealing and wars – below).
22. 1972: “Payday.” With Rip Torn playing a country and western, “outlaw” singer, Maury Dann who, behind the “aw shucks,” on-stage presence, is a mean-spirited, hell raiser with an obsessive demand for pills, alcohol and women. Story covers the substance use and abuse and destructions over a day and a half; imputed to many “outlaw” singers, especially Waylon Jennings.
23. 1972: “Cisco Pike.” With Kris Kristopherson as a rock star fallen on bad times who is black mailed by a corrupt cop (Gene Hackman) to sell marijuana. Harry Dean Stanton plays the friend. (Also with Karen Black and Roscoe Lee Browne.)
24. 1978. “Up in Smoke.” A romancing and comedic applause for smoking weed by Cheech and Chong. Truly a statement of “just say yes” before 1980’s reversals of opinion. Considered their best film.
25. strong>1978: “Who’ll Stop the Rain: With Nick Nolte; Returning U.S. Vietnam Vets
are engaged in smuggling operations. Plays up to the cynical renderings of the Vietnam war and fondness for the “60’s imagery.” Cynical overtones. System failures and individual tragedies. Male AA person attempts to help.
26. 1980. “Cheech and Chong’s Next Movie.” An inferior romp compared to “Up in Smoke.” Continuity of the personal “mess’ of those on marijuana, etc. Very definitely, no treatment center or AA member in this film!!
27. 1981: “Only When I Laugh.” A actress, Georgia (Marsha Mason) has completed three months in a treatment center and faces the challenge of repairing her relationship with her daughter, Polly (Kristy McNichol). Film traces her crises that challenge her young sobriety. Treatment. Program. Family.
28. 1981. “Cheech and Chong’s Nice Dreams.” Another “weed comedy”: they own an ice cream truck that fronts for a grass trade. Also: Peewee Herman.
29. 1982. “I’m Dancing as Fast as I Can.” TV producer, Barbara Gordon’s (Jill Clayburgh) addiction to valium. She recovers in an institutional setting after several failed attempts to recover by herself. No formal A.A. To the best of my knowledge, this is the only general-distribution film focused on substance abuse that is centered on pill addictions. Clayburgh is excellent.
30. 1983. “Scarface.” A Cuban refugee (Al Pacino) builds a powerful cocaine distribution empire. Cynical treatment of drug sanctions and attitudes in the U.S. that long precedes those of “Traffic,” below.
31. 1983. “Tender Mercies.” Story of “Mac Sledge” (Robert Duvall, Best Actor), former star country singer, lost in the bottle, who recovers and through the non-judgmental health of a new wife (Tess Harper). He stays sober despite the death of his child and post-divorce conflicts. No group or individual therapy indicated.
32. 1984: “Under the Volcano.” Story of an extremely depressed ex-British consulate member (Albert Finney) who destroys himself with alcohol Set in Mexico, 1939, during the “Day of the Dead.” Academy Award nom. – Finney.
33. 1984: “Ironweed.” Award winning performances by Jack Nicholson and Meryl Streep; also with Tom Waits. Frances Phelan (Nicholson) is wandering the streets of Albany in the Winter of 1938, haunted by his past when he dropped and killed his baby son years before. No formal treatment or program for any of these vagabonds.
34. 1986: “Sid and Nancy.” Based on the heroin demise of Sid Vicious (John Ritchie, played by Gary Oldman), a front man and most infamous member of the “Sex Pistols,” England’s most famous punk band, and his girlfriend, Nancy Spungeon (played by Chloe Webb). The film depicts several themes and perhaps this is not a “drug” movie, per se. But heroin and alcohol are ubiquitous.
35. 1987: “Barfly.” A semi-autobiographical account by Charles Bukowski about talented, marginal “skid row” type alcoholics at war between self-destruction and artistic creation. Classic alcoholic roles by Faye Dunaway and Mickey Rourke. Absolutely no recovery or “moral resolution” in this film.
36. 1987: “Less than Zero.” Poor little rich kids in the dark underside of California I the 1980’s is a common description. Robert Downey, Jr. (who else!) Huge cocaine abuse scenes. Treatment options portrayed.
37. 1988: “The Boost.” James Woods is a young, real estate developer whose expensive life style is destroyed by a downturn of the economy. In adapting, he turns to cocaine as a “boost.” He cleans up, noting the “program” in one flashback. But heroin use is resumed and at the end, he is isolated with cocaine.
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Note: Starting in the late 1980’s, especially with “Clean and Sober” (1988) and continuing on with “When a Man Loves a Woman “ (1994) “28 Days” (1998), the
program dynamics of “treatment centers” become articulated in film.
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38. 1988: “Clean and Sober.” Story of the forced treatment of a cocaine addicted (Michael Keaton) businessman who is still dealing. Morgan Freeman is the counselor in one of the first films to articulate the contexts of treatment centers.
39. 1988: “Bright Lights, Big City.” Cocaine addiction of “Jamie” (Michael J. Fox) and the disparity between his public (high powered magazine editor). Heavy drinking. Everyone leaves him. Advice from an old drunk (Jason Robards). Is a “Lost Weekend” of the 1980’s, even including the alcohol as well a cocaine.
40. 1989: “Drugstore Cowboy,” The lifestyle of a youthful group of addicts (Matt Dillon and Kelly Lynch) in the Pacific northwest, maintaining by stealing from drugstores and by negotiating their lives with the narcotics officers whom they have known for years. Excellent depiction of a drug group as a subculture. To me, it was amazing that this film and cast received so little recognition.
41. 1989: “Wired.” Heavily criticized film account of Woodward’s book on the drug world of the late comedian, John Belushi. Chronicles Belushi’s world of cocaine (and other) addictions and ultimate tragedy.
42. 1990: “Postcards from the Edge.” Based on Carrie Fisher’s journey through addiction, the story depicts the addictions and recovery of a daughter (Streep) of a famous movie star mother (Debby Reynolds, played by Shirley MacLaine) who, herself, is an alcoholic in total denial. Daughter goes into rehab; AA is mentioned. Recovery, rather mysteriously, occurs.
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Note: Nearly 20 years after the cult classic, “Superfly” (1972), there was a rapid increase in the numbers of films on Black gangs and drug use/trafficking.
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43. 1990: “Return of Superfly.” Second sequel. Priest returns from Europe to middle of drug war which he reluctantly enters to help federal agents. Termed a “black exploitation” film, it emphasizes blacks and inner city drug trafficking.
44. 1990: “King of New York.” Frank, an ultracool crime boss (Christopher Walken) rejoins his gang (with Laurence Fishburne) upon release from jail. Police-gang war. Violent, like “Scarface”; super dedicated, opposing police include Wesley Snipes and David Caruso. Drug lord movie.
45. trong>1991: “Naked Lunch.” Based on the life of William S. Burroughs account of drug abuse, homosexuality, violence and bizarre behaviors. Extreme, hallucinogenic images. (Peter Weller, Roy Scheider, Judy Davis…)
46. 1991: ”New Jack City.” A powerful story of a black, embattled drug lord (Wesley Snipes) combating the police and Italian gangs. Has remnants of “The Godfather,” “The Untouchables,” and “Scarface.” Tough. Influential. Accurate.
47. 1991: “Rush.” In the Texas drug culture of 1975, a rookie undercover narcotics
agent becomes hooked in infiltrating the drug world. Cynical commentary on the
subcultural enmeshments of legal and illegal worlds. Greg Allman is great; so is Clapton’s music score. (Jennifer Jason Leigh, Jason Patric and Sam Elliot)
48. 1992: Jumpin’ at the Boneyard: Story of an older brother (Tim Roth) desperately attempting to get his younger, crack addicted brother into rehab. Takes place in one day in NYC. Low budget but great cast including Roth, Luis Guzman, and Samuel L. Jackson. Attempts at rehab. No recovery or program.
49. 1992: “The Bad Lieutenant,” With Harvey Keitel as a nameless N.Y. cop, hopeless addicted to alcohol, drugs, gambling and sex. Hugely cynical view of “elite deviance” (i.e., here, police crime). Really rough film. It took me a second viewing to conclude that this was, indeed, centered on alcohol & drugs. No recovery. No redemption.

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Movies about Alcoholism

50. 1994: “When A Man Loves a Woman,” Explores the family tensions and secrecies accompanying the alcoholism of the wife (Meg Ryan) and denial by the husband (Andy Garcia). She recovers in treatment. He eventually recovers in Al Anon, one of the few films to depict the latter organization. Good portrayals.
51. 1994: “Sugar Hill,” with Wesley Snipes, Abe Vagoda, and Ernie Wright, story about two brothers who control the heroin trade in a Harlem neighborhood. Story traces the childhood events of watching their mother die of a heroin overdose and their father getting shot. Main characters manage to escape the violence.
52. 1995. “Drunks.” The most comprehensive film made depicting the structure and dynamics of an A.A. meeting. With Richard Lewis and Faye Dunaway, the story describes a meetings from beginning to end during which time a program veteran bolts from the room, drinks during the evening, and then returns to A.A.
53. 1995: “Leaving Las Vegas,” with Nicholas Cage and Elizabeth Shue (Oscar winner). Important emphasis on the links of alcohol with depression and suicide and the intentional use of alcohol for ending one’s life. No recovery.
54. 1995: “Clockers.” A great Spike Lee film (in my opinion) about a “clocker” (a crack dealer operating at any hour) who follows orders and murders a rival. The older brother initially takes the blame. Great performances by Harvey Keitel and John Turturro. There is redemption in that justice is served but like other portrayals of inner-city drug use during this period, there is a realistic understanding that recovery from use is nearly impossible. Extremely interesting portrayal of trust and empathy between white police and black dealers by Lee.
55. 1995: “Friday.” Hugely funny portrayal of Craig (Ice Cube) who gets fired on his day off and spends the day smoking marijuana with his friend, “Smokey” (Chris Tucker), escaping a dealer whose product Smokey has smoked up instead of selling, and negotiating the family and neighborhood. All black cast.
56. 1995: “The Basketball Diaries,” the story of the decline of an all star Catholic high school basketball star, based on the biography of Jim Carroll (Leonardo DiCaprio). The movie depicts the downward spiral of pills, heroin, and hustling to survive. The recovery is cold turkey but the end suggests an AA setting.
57. 1996: “Gridlock’d.” A story of two Detroit heroin addicts (Tim Roth and Tupac Shakur) who are attempting to kick drugs and are met with a wild and frustrating set of bureaucratic obstructions and misapplications in their attempts to receive help at a government sponsored treatment facility.
58. 1997: “Blackout.” Story of actor (Matthew Modine) whose life and career are blurred and obliterated between “films” and drinking despite a year of sobriety achieved in AA. Constant enabling and taunting by director and friend, Mickey (Dennis Hopper). Reality varies between “blackouts” and dreams.
59. 1998, “Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas,” with Johnny Depp. The use of current, synthesized drugs along with cocaine and other substances is portrayed in the total alteration of the addict’s perceptions, cognitive structure and value systems (rationalizations). Story by Hunter Thompson. No recovery here!
60. 1998: “Half Baked.” An adolescent “stoner movie” and throwback to Cheech and Chong. Kenny (Harland Williams) kills a policeman’s horse (!). Other three stoner friends try to raise bail by stealing marijuana from a lab. Predictable. Fun. Cameo roles: Snoop Doggy Dogg, Tommy Chong, and Willie Nelson.
61. 1998: “28 Days” with Sandra Bullock with a previously unsuccessful track record on recovery. A second film on treatment centers. This one depicts mainstream A.A. ideology and treatment processes. Mother was an alcoholic. Recovery.
62. 1998: “Permanent Midnight.” Based on the life of screenwriter, Jerry Stahl (Ben Stiller), story is the post-rehabilitation telling pf the story of Stahl’s complete deterioration and current (post-rehab) hopes.
63. 1998: “Another Day in Paradise.” With Two middle aged junkie thieves (James Woods, Melanie Griffin) mentor two younger drug crime youth, go on a crime spree. A drug deal goes sour. Cynical view of systemic patterns and the mesh of shaped individuals who fit the hopeless pursuits.
64. 1998: “Belly.” Set in N.Y., New Jersey and Jamaica, two black boyhood friends go different directions, one to family and convention and the other to drug distribution and other crimes. The drug themes are those of criminal distribution among other criminal enterprises. Appeals to religious, moral redemption at end.
65. 1999: “The Affliction,” with Nick Nolte, Willem Defoe, and James Coburn (Oscar for his peformance). An intensive, extensive elaboration of the impacts of parental alcoholism on the long-term, maladaptive behaviors of the children, especially when the impacts have remained untreated. Excellent film.
66. 1999: “In Too Deep.” Story of a Black undercover agent’s (Omar Epps) infiltration of a Black gangster’s (LL Cool J) cocaine distribution organization. The officers are often neutralized by conflicts between personal and professional roles and the agency heads are often crass in their disregard for lives. Like “Traffic,” below, heavily cynical.
67. 2000: “Requiem for a Dream.” Ellyn Burstyn. Explores some of the same themes present in “The Affliction,” above, only here, the son joins the mother and both shut down. The son dies, the mother reaches a point of ego debilitation.
68. 2000: “Traffic.” Terrific portrayal of the layered economic and social forces that
supply and market drugs and neutralize the “war on drugs.” Questions the legal effectiveness and morality of official responses to the “drug problem.” Shows cynicism, systems of use, and widespread police corruption. Also, recovery.
69. 2000: “Blow.” With Johnny Debb. The portrayal of a cocaine dealer and, later, kingpin and the subsequent outcomes of this particular drug career. Based on
the story of George Jung, scheduled to remain in a federal prison until 2015. Shows cynicism, systems of use, and widespread police corruption.
70. 2000: “Pollock.” The alcoholically abusive, depressive and artistic genius of Jackson Pollock (Ed Harris, Oscar nomination), set in 1950’s. Sub-themes: artistic innovations; manic-depressive disorders. Ends in self-destruction.
71. 2000: “Once in the Life.” Story of two cornered half brothers (one black – Lawrence Fishburne, one white - Titus Welliver) who are drug dealers in a deal gone sour. Interaction between the brothers and the invited betraying friend, Tony “the Tiger,” is terrific.
72. 2000: “Jesus’ Son.” Story of “Fuckhead,” a series of vignettes of “an unnamed Midwestern junkie-slash-holy fool from drug dependency and petty crime in the 1970’s to redemption. Reviewed highly as a masterful portrait of a deviant career that middle class persons may not understand. Short run on Houston’s screens.
73. 2001: “Training Day.” A narcotics, police officer breaks in a rookie (Ethan Hawke) and subjects the new officer to all of the non-normative and illegal activities of the narcotics division. Corrupted police. Extensive cynicism. Redemption as an outcome of revenge.
74. 2002: “The Salton Sea.” A jazz musician and dope dealer of Crystal Meth (Val Kilmer) goes underground into the world of speed freaks to find the man who killed his wife. Characterized as both a crime thriller and a moody comedy.
75. 2002: “Empire.” The story of Victor Rosa (John Leguizamo), a Puerto Rican drug dealer in the Bronx who desires to marshal the funds from his original “drug” (a novel synthesis of a heroin mix that he calls “empire”) into a career on Wall Street. Drug dealing. Betrayal (the “legitimate” stock options turn out to be a devastating con). Revenge. Definitely no recovery or redemption.
76. 2003: “Spun.” Tremendous cast (John Leguizamo, Brittany Murphy, Mickey Rourke, Alexis Arquette) in a story about the mania of speed (meth). Characters engage in self-destructive behaviors and are neither demonized nor romanticized. Cynical portrayal of two policemen strung out on speed.


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III. Films cited as “drug” or “alcoholism” films but not centered on these themes.
. 1. 1932: “What Price Hollywood?” (Also three versions of “A Star is Born)
2. 1969: “Easy Rider.”
3. 1962: “Long Days Journey into Night”
4. 1972: “Lady Sings the Blues”
5. 1981: “Arthur.”
6. 1987: “River’s Edge.” .
7. 1998: “Down in the Delta.”
8. “Basquiat.”: 1996
9. 1999: “Go.”


IV. Some Films Made for TV and Presented to U.S. Television Audiences
1. 1958: “Days of Wine and Roses.”
2. 1982: “The Life of the Party: The Story of Beatrice”
3. 1982: “The Country Girl.”
4 . 1987: “The Betty Ford Story.”
5. 1989: “My Name is Bill W.”
6. 1996: “Rebound – The Legend of Earl ‘The Goat’ Manigault.
7. 1998: “Gia.”


IV. Some Foreign (Non-U.S.) Films on Alcohol and Drug Consumption and Life Styles
1. 1996: “Trainspotting.”
2. 1999: “My Name is Joe.”
3. 1963: “The Fire Within.”
4. 1948: ”Drunken Angel”

[one2many]

Movies about Alcoholism

I did try to put these in a file or attachment rather than print them all..but to no avail..sorry!

[Tabbers (a.k.a. KTAB)]

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Nice idea Oney. My personal favourite but it is tough to watch at times, a little too close to the bone for many of us maybe?

1995 Leaving Las Vegas staring Nicolas Cage and Elisabeth Shue

[wannachange]

Movies about Alcoholism

Yes Oney, number 49 I watched last night, the bad lieutenant had some scenes of both drug and alcohol abuse, the alcohol scenes where of particular interest as the daughter of the man who was a strong alcoholic who took him a half day to prepare cookies for his AA meetings was thinking she was less worse off because she only drank beer during the day - until she realised she was poisoning herself just as much.

I will look through some of the others you have posted here as I too have taken up a keen interest in this.

[Guitarista]

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Thank's Oney. x

[Guest]

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shit oney thats some list any ones about boy meets girl????...a few others about Charles Bukowski a drunk poet .

Factotum.... with Matt Dylan great!!!!!
Bar Fly ..with Mickey Rourke.
Tales of Ordinary Madness with Ben Gazzara

[byebyebridgetjones]

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wannachange;866080 wrote: Yes Oney, number 49 I watched last night,

So THAT'S where you were last night :H

[Tabbers (a.k.a. KTAB)]

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Here is a movie review site I find quite good and comprehensive without being tmi. It might be useful if anyone wants to get more details about any of the certain films mentioned.

ROTTEN TOMATOES: Movies - New Movie Reviews and Previews!

[one2many]

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GREAT stuff, thanks a million Ktab x

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IMDb Video: Things We Lost in the Fire

A friend and I are heading up a film club at the moment at the treatment centre I was in last year. We've shown some really good movies over the past 6 months relating to recovery, community, love, spirit, etc. The films are generally a move away from the addiction/alcoholism movies into the feel good factor movies that have a strong message of hope.

This was one of the movies we watched 2 months ago. I'd not seen or even heard of it but it was a great movie to watch. A real tear jerker at times too.

synopsis: Audrey Burke (Halle Berry) and her warm and loving husband Brian (David Duchovny) have been happily married 11 years; they have a 10-year-old daughter named Harper (Alexis Llewellyn) and a 6-year-old son named Dory (Micah Berry). Jerry Sunborne (Benicio del Toro) is a heroin addict who has been Brians close friend since childhood.

Audrey gets tragic news delivered to her door by the local police: Brian has been killed in an attempt to defend a woman who was being beaten by her husband. On the day of the funeral Audrey realises that she has forgotten to inform Jerry of Brian's death. Her brother Neal (Omar Benson Miller) delivers the message to Jerry and takes him to the funeral.

Audrey invites Jerry to move into the room adjacent to their garage, which he does. During his stay at the Burke home Jerry struggles to remain drug-free and also becomes very fond of Harper and Dory. The relationship between Jerry and Audrey is fragile and complicated. Jerry helps Audrey cope in many ways, including lying with her in bed to help her sleep. But Audrey, upset and confused, takes out her grief at Brian's death on Jerry. She becomes angry when Jerry helps Dory overcome his fear of submerging his head in the pool, as this had been something Brian had tried to do for years. Eventually her rudeness to him causes Jerry to move out and relapse with heroin. Audrey and Neal rescue and rehabilitate him and he agrees to admit himself to a specialized clinic. At first Harper, who has come to love Jerry, is angry that he is leaving, but after he leaves her a heartfelt note she forgives him. At the close of the film Jerry is still struggling with his addiction but seems to be well on his way to recovery. He leaves flowers on Audrey's doorstep with a note that reads, "Accept the good."