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- Rachel Getting Married. While many may know director Jonathan Demme for tense horror and thrillers like "The Silence of the Lambs" and "The Manchurian Candidate," he also has made several dramatic films about outsiders, who are misunderstood or not accepted by others.
- When a Man Loves a Woman. Luis Mandoki's "When a Man Loves a Woman" takes its title from Percy Sledge's song of the same name and centers on Alice Green (Meg Ryan), a school counselor, who drinks excessively.
- Clean and Sober. After establishing a career in comedy in movies like "Mr. Mom" and "Beetlejuice," Michael Keaton transitioned into drama in Glenn Cordon Caron's "Clean and Sober."
- Wild. Jean-Marc Vallee's 2014 biopic about Cheryl Strayed's solo backpacking trip across the Pacific Crest Trail focuses on a self-imposed path to recovery after a long struggle with heroin addiction.
8. Beautiful Boy. 2018 2h R. 7.4 (105K) Rate. 62 Metascore. Based on the best-selling pair of memoirs from father and son David and Nic Sheff, Beautiful Boy chronicles the heartbreaking and inspiring experience of survival, relapse and recovery in a family coping with addiction over many years. Director Felix van Groeningen Stars Steve Carell ...
Sep 13, 2024 · These films offer a message of hope, showing that even in the darkest moments, there’s a path forward. “Clean and Sober,” starring Michael Keaton, was one of the pioneers in this regard. Released in 1988, it was one of the first mainstream Hollywood films to tackle the subject of addiction recovery head-on.
- Days of Wine and Roses
- Notorious
- Krisha
- Trainspotting
- Clean & Sober
- Drugstore Cowboy
- Smashed
- Traffic
- Half Nelson
- When A Man Loves A Woman
Written by JP Miller (adapted from his own teleplay) and directed by Blake Edwards (Breakfast at Tiffany's), this drama stars Jack Lemmon as a problem drinker who ropes his romantic partner (Lee Remick) into his lifestyle. In 2018, Days of Wine and Roses was selected for preservation in the National Film Registry.
Arguably Alfred Hitchcock's most exquisite film (yes, Notorious really is on the same level as Vertigo), this elegant thriller cast Cary Grant and Ingrid Bergman against type as bitter lovers tangled in a post-World War II spy mission in South America. Bergman plays a drunk with a haunted past. Selected by the Writers Guild of America as one of the...
Trey Edward Shults made his debut feature on a shoestring budget in his parents’ home, using his family as actors. Krisha tells the story of a troubled alcoholic who seeks to make amends with her family over Thanksgiving. Inventively using stylistic choices of horror cinema to heighten the drama, Krishais a tiny movie that will knock you flat. At i...
Based on a novel by Irvine Welsh, Danny Boyle's iconic adrenaline rush, depicting a posse of heroin addicts in Edinburgh, is hilarious, fun, nightmarishly horrific, and stomach-turningly gross—often all within the same scene. That's what makes it so effective, so true to life and exhilaratingly cinematic. This was the international breakthrough of ...
In a departure from his early work mostly in comedies, Michael Keaton starred in Glen Gordon Caron's drama about a real estate agent whose life becomes unmanageable. In his positive 1988 review, film critic Roger Ebert(himself a recovering alcoholic) said:
Gus Van Sant's harrowing second feature, based on an autobiographical novel by James Fogle, chronicles a network of drug addicts in the Pacific Northwest. Starring Matt Dillon, Drugstore Cowboy long-boasted a rare 100% on Rotten Tomatoes that in recent years has slipped to 97%. Also worth watching: Van Sant's relatively lighter addiction-themed Don...
Leaving an impression in everything from offbeat genre pics (Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter, Final Destination 3) to top-shelf, award-winning dramas (Fargo), Mary Elizabeth Winstead has always been great. She's characteristically terrific (as is co-star Aaron Paul) in this drama about a schoolteacher who decides to surrender after a string of emba...
Based on a British television serial, Steven Soderbergh's epic drama won four Oscars: Best Director, Best Supporting Actor (Benicio del Toro), Best Adapted Screenplay and Best Film Editing. Traffic explores the trade of illegal drugs from several perspectives.
Ryan Gosling earned a Best Actor Oscar nod for his portrayal of a middle school history teacher who smokes crack in this altogether brilliant drama directed by Ryan Fleck, co-starring Shareeka Epps and Anthony Mackie. Related: 10 of the Best Movies About Mental Health
One of Meg Ryan's all-time great performances is front-and-center in this romantic drama about a wife and mother whose problem drinking leads her to rehab. Co-starring Andy Garcia, When a Man Loves a Woman examines alcoholism as a family disease, and the issue of enabling. Ryan received a SAG nomination for Best Actress for her work here.
May 29, 2024 · Leaving Las Vegas. One of the best movies of the '90s, Leaving Las Vegas starring Nicolaus Cage, is more of a cautionary tale than one of recovery. It shows how deep people can get when they aren ...
Dec 2, 2021 · 28 Days (2000) If there’s a slightly more whimsical side to addiction and recovery, it’s in the Betty Thomas-directed, Sandra Bullock-starring 28 Days (not to be confused with the one about ...
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Oct 8, 2023 · 13 'The Wolf of Wall Street' (2013) Martin Scorsese 's The Wolf of Wall Street is a film that tackles more than one form of addiction. For starters, Jordan Belfort tells the audience about the ...
