When a Man Loves a Woman
A picture-perfect family is threatened by the wife’s dependence on alcohol and her husband’s reaction to her drinking. Stars Andy Garcia and Meg Ryan.
28 Days
Perennial good girl Sandra Bullock is surprisingly believable as a party girl in need of a wake-up call in this story from a treatment center.
A Woman Under The Influnce
Gena Rowlands plays a woman whose sanity is unraveling while Peter Falk plays her husband, trying to understand the phenomenon and sometimes losing his patience.
Barfly
The besotted adventures of skid-row writer Henry, played by Mickey Rourke, who begins a romance with fellow barfly Wanda, played by Faye Dunaway.
Clean and Sober
A real-estate salesman, Michael Keaton, whose addiction to drugs and alcohol is destroying his life, reluctantly enters a detoxification program.
Days of Wine and Roses
A failed public relations flack convinces his wife that the couple that drinks together, stays together. Five Academy Award nominations. Stars Jack Lemmon, Lee Remick.
Leaving Las Vegas
An alcoholic movie executive decides to drive to Las Vegas and commit suicide by drinking himself to death. Stars Nicolas Cage, Elisabeth Shue.
Wired
A film adaptation of Bob Woodward’s bestseller “Wired,” a biography of comedian/actor and Saturday Night Live star John Belushi.
The Lost Weekend
This classic film chronicles three days in the life of an alcoholic writer whose self-destructive binges wreak havoc on his life and loved ones. Best Picture, 1945.
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