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Sandra Bullock plays Gwen Cummings, a newspaper columnist and addict. After a drunken driving accident she enters rehab to avoid jail. She faces her addictions as well as facing some ugly truths about her life.

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Bad Santa (2003)
Billy Bob Thornton plays alcoholic and very bad Santa, Willie in this extremely non traditional Christmas movie.

Nick Nolte plays alcoholic, small town cop Wade Whitehouse. A troubling murder case and ghosts from the past threaten to destroy him.

Barfly (1987)
Mickey Rourke and Faye Dunaway play Henry Chinaski & Wanda Wilcox, a pair of bar regulars that find a connection. Although they find love together their destructive patterns threaten to tear them apart.



Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1958)
Paul Newman plays Brick, an ex-football star and current alcoholic in Tennessee Williams classic Cat On A Hot Tin Roof. Brick turns to the bottle to avoid dealing with his family and his cheating wife, Cat, played by Elizabeth Taylor.

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Crazy Heart (2009)
Jeff Bridges plays Bad Blake, a washed up country singer and alcoholic. New hope for his life romantically and professionally is threatened by his destructive behavior.

Hoosiers (1987)
Dennis Hopper stars opposite Gene Hackman as Shooter. He is the town drunk and basketball fanatic who works with Coach Norman Dale to lead the local high school team to victory.

Days of Wine and Roses (1962)
Jack Lemon plays public relations man and alcoholic, Joe Clay. Not satisfied to rot alone he marries young Kirsten and leads her down the path of addiction.

Dean Stockwell plays Edmund Tyrone. He is the oldest son of a very dysfunctional family and abuses alcohol in order to cope.

Leaving Las Vegas (1995)
Nicolas Cage plays terminal alcoholic Ben Sanderson. He comes to Vegas to complete his suicide by the bottle and finds unexpected love with prostitute, Sera (Elizabeth Shue).


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Salvador (1986)
Alcoholic and down on his luck journalist, Richard Boyle (James Woods) heads to El Salvador hoping for a change in luck.

A Star Is Born (1954)
James Mason plays Norman Maine, a washed out actor and alcoholic who helps aspiring ingenue Vicki Lester (Judy Garland) become a star.

Jack Nicholson plays recovering alcoholic Jack Torrance in The Shining. Jack rediscovers booze after making friends with malevolent ghosts in a snow bound hotel.

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The Lost Weekend (1945)
Ray Miland plays out of control alcoholic Don Birman who has lost a whole weekend of his life to the black hole of booze. What happened during those days may change his life forever.

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When a Man Loves a Woman (1994)
Meg Ryan plays alcoholic Alice Green who must learn to give up the bottle in order to save her marriage to Michael (Andy Garcia) and reconnect with her two daughters (Tina Majorino and Mae Whitman).

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