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"Clean" is the story of a woman trying to get her life back after her husband-in-all-but-name dies of an overdose, and she serves time in a Canadian jail for possession. Nick Nolte plays her father-in-law, who is raising her son. I don't require the movies I watch to have the quickest of plots, and some meandering scenes can add flavor to a movie. But this movie was just a little too "arty" for me, and maybe a little too distant. I thought Maggie Cheung was mesmerizing, and if not for her I probably would have given up on the movie. Nick Nolte was okay, and and does a good job of looking haggard, but had such an odd cadence in his voice I found him irritating. I'm not sure what could have saved this movie (and I usually have some opinion), editing it down might leave out too much of the trials and tribulations of how hard it is to go clean - especially in the music industry. But in the end I just can't recommend this movie, too slow and too plodding.
4/10
