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The film marked Peter Cohn's directorial debut and Richard Lewis's first dramatic role as an actor. [4][1] Cohn is the son of the famed talent agent Sam Cohn of ICM, who helped his son in getting client Dianne Wiest to join the film's cast. [5]
Drunks: Directed by Peter Cohn. With Richard Lewis, Liza Harris, Liam Ahern, George Martin. The lives of Jim and other alcoholics in and outside an AA meeting.
A remarkable cast of New York actors star in this powerful and realistic portrayal of a Times Square AA meeting. The cast includes Richard Lewis (in his first dramatic lead), Faye Dunaway, Dianne Wiest, Parker Posey. Drunks also features the late Spalding Gray and Howard Rollins.
Rachel (Dianne Wiest), a doctor, explains her struggle to stay away from alcohol and drugs. Joseph (the late Howard Rollins) recounts blanking out at the wheel while driving with his five-year-old son. Shelley (Amanda Plummer) talks about how a visit from her mother has triggered feelings of anger.
Jim (Richard Lewis) is in a bad mood as he sits in on an AA meeting in the basement of a church in New York City; he's prodded into speaking in front of the group for the first time in seven months, and he confesses that he desperately wants to get drunk.
Drunks is a heavy intimate portrait of individuals speaking at an AA meeting interlaced with one of the members' escapades over the course of that same night after he walked out of that meeting.
The lives of Jim and other alcoholics in and outside an AA meeting. At the beginning of a nightly Alcoholics Anonymous meeting, Jim seems particularly troubled. His sponsor encourages him to talk that night, the first time in seven months, so he does - and leaves the meeting right after.
