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Anna
Karenina 1997 http://movies.warnerbros.com/anna/
D: Bernard Rose. Opium addiction classic by Leo Tolstoy. |
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The
Basketball Diaries 21/04/1995 http://www.dicaprio.com/filmography/bbd.html
D: Scott Kalvert. Leonardo di Capriccio.
Mainly about drug addiction among high school basketball team but
includes friend who is dying from leukaemia. From book by Jim Carroll |
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The
Boost 1988
D: Harold Becker, James Woods, Sean Young. A convincing portrait of cocaine addiction and
a life governed by the need to drink and do drugs |
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Chasing the Dragon 199?
D: Ian Sander.?? |
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Days of Wíne and Roses 1962
D: Blake Edwards. Jack Lemmon, Lee Remick. Set in San Francisco, with Lemmon marrying
Remick and pulling her into a state of alcoholism. Realistic direction and uncompromising
writing combine for excellent results |
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The Fire Within 1963
D: Louis Malle. Maurice Ronet. A shattering study of alcoholism. Wealthy Ronet, released
from a sanatorium after a breakdown, visits his friends in Paris one last time. Acted to
maximum effect and with a minimum of self-pity |
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Frances 1982
D: Graeme Clifford. Jessica Lange, Sam Shepard. Biography of movie star Frances Farmer who
wound up in a barbaric insane asylum and died of alcoholism |
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Goodfellows 19??
D: ??? |
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I'll Cry Tomorrow 1955
D: Daniel Mann. Susan Hayward, Richard Conte. Superlative portrayal by Hayward of star
Lillian Roth, her assorted marriages and alcoholic problems. Everything a movie biography
should be. Helen Rose won Oscar for costumes |
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Ironweed 1987
D: Hector Babenco. Jack Nicholson, Meryl Streep. Set in Albany, New York, 1938. About
street people who have accepted alcoholism as a fact of life. |
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Leaving Las Vegas 1996
D: Mike Figgis. Nicholas Cage, Elisabeth Shue, best actor Oscar to Cage. Powerful and
moving story of hopeless alcoholic and prostitute, both at dead ends in their lives. |
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A Long Day's Journey Into Night 1962
D: Sidney Lumet. Katherine Hepburn, Ralph Richardson, Jason Robards, Dean Stockwell.
Hepburn is dope-addicted wife, Richardson her pompous actor husband, Stockwell the son
dying of TB and Robards the alcoholic son, James jr., who would rather destroy all around
him than show the deep affections he feels. |
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The Lost Weekend 1945
4 Oscars; Best Picture, Director, Actor, Screenplay.
Probably the best known film about alcoholism. Milland plays a
writer who goes on a binge and ends up in Bellevue hospital. Milland won an Oscar. From
the novel by Charles R. Jackson |
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My Name is Bill W. 1989
D: Daniel Petrie. Hallmark Production. J. Woods, J. Gardner |
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Only When I Laugh 1981
D: Glenn Jordan. Marsha Mason, Kristy McNichol. Alcoholic actress struggling to stay of
the bottle and her relationship with her teenaged daughter. |
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Opening Night 1977
D: John Cassavetes. Gena Rowlands. Actress in final stages of alcoholism before
hospitalisation, film shows how alcoholics surround themselves with enablers who will help
them continue to drink. |
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The Razor's Edge 1964 + 1984
D: Edmund Goulding. Tyrone Power, Anne Baxter in Oscar winning role Power is the war hero
seeking the true meaning of life, Baxter (Theresa Russell in 1984) is an alcoholic one of
his many friends. |
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Skin Deep 1989
D: Blake Edwards. John Ritter. Writer drinks; complains, suffers, moans, becomes impotent,
can't write and considers suicide until shrink says: Stop drinking. |
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Under the Volcano 1984
D: John Huston. Albert Finney, Jaqueline Bisset. Alcoholic diplomat in Mexico and his last
day of drinking. Within every drunk is a man with self-respect trying to get free. |
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The Verdict, 1982
D: Sidney Lumet. Paul Newman, Charlotte Rampling. Newman gives one of his finest
performances as Boston lawyer who's hit bottom. His lost job, messy divorce and disbarment
hearing are all traceable to his alcoholism. |
