Does any one know of any recovery movies? - SoberRecovery : Alcoholism Drug Addiction Help and Information

***Time2Surrender*** · 12-22-2004, 01:05 PM

I was looking for suggestions on recovery movies.Or movies about alcoholism and addiction.Not all these movies have happy endings.Any more suggestions would be appreciated.Thank you.

My name is Bill W.
The lost weekend
Drunks
Gia
When a man loves a woman
Barfly
The Rose
The boost
Leaving Las Vegas
Clean and Sober
28 days
Of wine and roses

12-22-2004, 01:29 PM

Isn't "Trainspotting" an addiction movie? (or is it "Trainspotters?")

Leaving Las Vegas was pretty good IMO, as was Clean and Sober.

I'll have to put my thiniking cap on for some others...

***Time2Surrender*** · 12-22-2004, 01:51 PM

Yup,I forgot about "Train spotting" Thanx Doug,I will add that to my list.

Dan · 12-22-2004, 01:54 PM

"Rush".
With Jason Patrick and Jennifer Jason-Leigh.
You'll have to look hard for the recovery angle.
But the addiction picture is crystal clear.

***Time2Surrender*** · 12-22-2004, 02:16 PM

Rush was a good one.Greg Allman made a good drug dealer too.

***Time2Surrender*** · 12-22-2004, 02:37 PM

"Permanant midnight" and "Drugstore cowboy" are two more I forgot about.All though I am trying to find more movies about recovery.

clancy! · 12-23-2004, 03:24 PM

Hmm, is trainspotting a reovery movie??? I find most flicks, as with songs that are supposed to recovery based are just ssoooooooo cheesy! y'know,watch with vomit bowl...

clancy! · 12-23-2004, 03:37 PM

One book I absolutely loved though about a guys journey through heroin and everything else addiction is 'Wonderland Avenue' by Danny Sugerman, you know the guy who managed the Doors? Its a great unoficial rock biog, a really gripping read, id give it five stars for entertainment value,and its poignant without being sick makingly cheesy. Another great read on the same subject (and also a great movie too,but its in german,with subtitles) is Christiane F. Its an oldie now,but its great,with footage of a cool David Bowie concert in Berlin. Anyone read these?

clancy! · 12-23-2004, 03:40 PM

Ah, yeah,how about Midnight Express?? that is an awesome movie!

saac · 12-23-2004, 03:44 PM

I saw a movie about 10 years ago called christina f or h or a not sure. I can't find it anymore. Maybe some of you know what I am talking about. that was a good movie I thought anyway. I was really the only one. ahhahaha

***Time2Surrender*** · 12-23-2004, 07:10 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by clancy!

Hmm, is trainspotting a reovery movie??? I find most flicks, as with songs that are supposed to recovery based are just ssoooooooo cheesy! y'know,watch with vomit bowl...

No,I wouldnt say its a recovery movie.More of an addiction movie.I dont even remember how it ends.

Termite · 04-18-2008, 02:05 AM

Along the lines of Permanent Midnight and Drugstore Cowboy- Jesus Son (book by Denis Johnson, movie was OK. Definite narcotic tailspin and the movie included recovery.)

namelessone · 04-20-2008, 11:27 AM

The Days of Wine and Roses
and
My name is Bill W
Are my favorites

dgillz · 04-21-2008, 01:34 AM

"The Boost" with James Woods was a good movie, sadly he did not recover in that movie. Woods also played Bill Wilson in "My name is Bill W".

NOMOMERLOTMAMMA · 04-21-2008, 05:47 AM

Things We Lost in the Fire (really good)
You Kill Me (funny in a dry way)

beingjenagain · 04-22-2008, 06:18 PM

When a Man Loves a Woman- Meg Ryan and Andy Garcia
Loveit! Makes me cry at the reality of it!

kj3880 · 04-23-2008, 10:45 AM

Try "Candy" with Heath Ledger. Turned out he had reason for being so good at playing an addict, sadly. This is a really good, harrowing look at what heroin can do.
kj

lilbit · 04-24-2008, 08:21 AM

1. Fight Club "Only when you lost everything....are you truely free"
+Brad Pitt

2. SNATCH (turn "Pikey" speak on) "Do you know what nemisis means?"
+Brad Pitt

3. Barfly "I don't hate the cops...I just feel better when they're not around"
+Mickey Rourke

4. Last Temptation Of Christ "Why should I follow you?"
+Willem DeFoe

5. Mosquito Coast ""A know it all...that's sometimes right"
+Harrison Ford
++River Pheonix (hottie hot)

6. Trainspotting (USE subtitles!) "He lacks the moral fiber"
+Euwan MacGreggor

7. Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas "Oh...he's my attorney"
+Johnny Dep

8. Ticket to Heaven "What's wrong with you?"
+ANYBODY that fears being brainwashed for a "greater" cause....

9. SPUN "???????????????"
+Brittany Murphy

10. Requiem for a Dream "This is not happening...and even if it was...that's okay"
+Ellen Burnstyn

11. Pollok "I AM NOT BRINGING A CHILD INTO THIS!!!!!!!!!!"
+Marcia Gay Harding
++Ed Harris IS POLLOK!

12. Harold & Maude The whole script is awesome........
+Ruth Gorden as the MOTHER of "Cougar"

zencat · 04-24-2008, 09:28 AM

Salton Sea.
The Bad Lieutenant.
Man with the Golden Arm.

lilbit · 04-24-2008, 11:50 AM

Boy was that one movie there tuff to watch! I had to turn it off the first time...then watched it again later...GREAT MOVIE. Harvey Kietell (spelling wrong) IS THE MAN! Talk about hitting ROCK BOTTOM!?! That poor guy went thru the wringer and took everyone in his path with him....didn't get enough praise fer that film. Guess the whole full frontal nudity thing just scared the hell out of everyone. I had a heck of a time with the nuns getting raped in the church....FREAKED ME OUT! But...it was part of the disturbing story line. Funny how we get where we are today. I was also watching the John Adams story on HBO...where they tar and feathered people back in the good really old days. BOILLING HOT TAR...then the mob threw feathers on the poor fellow...then stuck him on top of a big log...and marched his twitchy body all through the town squares. AND I WAS ALL UPSET ABOUT GETTING THROWN OFF SOBERCIRCLE!?! YIKES!
Anyhow...our countries fore-fathers were a ruff bunch. And can we talk about what the WOMEN had to go thru?!?....BEFORE THEY WERE BURNED AT THE STAKE?!!! DOUBLE YIKES!!
Anyhooo...Stay clean and SOBER...just for today...all day...ONE DAY AT A TIME!
PEACE!

rubycanoe · 04-24-2008, 07:06 PM

not sure of the exact spelling/title. very , very, good ,very graphic, anti-drug movie ,shows the horrors of drug addiction. requiem for a dream ?

zencat · 04-24-2008, 11:03 PM

When I watch movies like "Bad Lieutenant" I find myself amazed that the drugging life in the kill zone was that bad. At the time of my using I thought I was having fun with being whacked out crazy and all the stupid stuff was normal. Then I see drugging movies sober I start to think to myself, that crap is not so normal after all. For some those movies have no recovery value, to me there are like a new

perspective.

scraptastic · 04-24-2008, 11:51 PM

I watched a movie called Citizen Jane a couple years ago....it gives an interesting spin on addiction recovery. It also deals a lot with abortion issues. One of those food for thought movies...

cookconfay · 04-25-2008, 06:01 AM

I'm dancing as fast as I can

I think it's with Jill Clayburn (?), she's addicted to valium....watched it over 15 yrs ago in treatment.....

lilbit · 04-25-2008, 09:38 AM

Was that the movie with that peanut mouthed actress...umm..from Wild At Heart? What was her name?
GREAT MOVIE!
I KNEW A CHIC LIKE THAT!
Knew some cats back in high school that huffed their way...though HIGH school. Shiny silver noses and all....heres a thought...ONE of 'em went on to be a PUBLIC DEFENDER! Now THAT'S NEAT-O!

Well...Laura Dern...that's her name. RIGHT. Good movie.

12-22-2004, 01:05 PM	#1 (permalink)
*Time2Surrender* Community Greeter Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: Hillsboro,Oregon Soon to be Washington State Posts: 6,335 Blog Entries: 3	Does any one know of any recovery movies? I was looking for suggestions on recovery movies.Or movies about alcoholism and addiction.Not all these movies have happy endings.Any more suggestions would be appreciated.Thank you. My name is Bill W. The lost weekend Drunks Gia When a man loves a woman Barfly The Rose The boost Leaving Las Vegas Clean and Sober 28 days Of wine and roses __________________ "Jack and Diane" painted a picture of my life and my dreams, Suddenly this crazy world made more sense to me Well I heard it today and I couldn't help but sing along Cause everytime I hear that song...

12-22-2004, 01:51 PM	#3 (permalink)
*Time2Surrender* Community Greeter Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: Hillsboro,Oregon Soon to be Washington State Posts: 6,335 Blog Entries: 3	Yup,I forgot about "Train spotting" Thanx Doug,I will add that to my list. __________________ "Jack and Diane" painted a picture of my life and my dreams, Suddenly this crazy world made more sense to me Well I heard it today and I couldn't help but sing along Cause everytime I hear that song...

12-22-2004, 02:16 PM	#5 (permalink)
*Time2Surrender* Community Greeter Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: Hillsboro,Oregon Soon to be Washington State Posts: 6,335 Blog Entries: 3	Rush was a good one.Greg Allman made a good drug dealer too. __________________ "Jack and Diane" painted a picture of my life and my dreams, Suddenly this crazy world made more sense to me Well I heard it today and I couldn't help but sing along Cause everytime I hear that song...

12-22-2004, 02:37 PM	#6 (permalink)
*Time2Surrender* Community Greeter Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: Hillsboro,Oregon Soon to be Washington State Posts: 6,335 Blog Entries: 3	"Permanant midnight" and "Drugstore cowboy" are two more I forgot about.All though I am trying to find more movies about recovery. __________________ "Jack and Diane" painted a picture of my life and my dreams, Suddenly this crazy world made more sense to me Well I heard it today and I couldn't help but sing along Cause everytime I hear that song...

12-23-2004, 03:24 PM	#7 (permalink)
clancy! Member Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: LONDON UK Posts: 276	Hmm, is trainspotting a reovery movie??? I find most flicks, as with songs that are supposed to recovery based are just ssoooooooo cheesy! y'know,watch with vomit bowl... __________________ CARPE DIEM

12-22-2004, 01:29 PM	#2 (permalink)
Doug Guest Posts: n/a	Isn't "Trainspotting" an addiction movie? (or is it "Trainspotters?") Leaving Las Vegas was pretty good IMO, as was Clean and Sober. I'll have to put my thiniking cap on for some others...

12-22-2004, 01:54 PM	#4 (permalink)
Dan Member Join Date: Apr 2004 Posts: 8,753	"Rush". With Jason Patrick and Jennifer Jason-Leigh. You'll have to look hard for the recovery angle. But the addiction picture is crystal clear.

12-23-2004, 03:37 PM	#8 (permalink)
clancy! Member Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: LONDON UK Posts: 276	One book I absolutely loved though about a guys journey through heroin and everything else addiction is 'Wonderland Avenue' by Danny Sugerman, you know the guy who managed the Doors? Its a great unoficial rock biog, a really gripping read, id give it five stars for entertainment value,and its poignant without being sick makingly cheesy. Another great read on the same subject (and also a great movie too,but its in german,with subtitles) is Christiane F. Its an oldie now,but its great,with footage of a cool David Bowie concert in Berlin. Anyone read these? __________________ CARPE DIEM

12-23-2004, 03:40 PM	#9 (permalink)
clancy! Member Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: LONDON UK Posts: 276	Ah, yeah,how about Midnight Express?? that is an awesome movie! __________________ CARPE DIEM

12-23-2004, 03:44 PM	#10 (permalink)
saac Member Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Valdosta, Georgia Posts: 43	I saw a movie about 10 years ago called christina f or h or a not sure. I can't find it anymore. Maybe some of you know what I am talking about. that was a good movie I thought anyway. I was really the only one. ahhahaha

04-18-2008, 02:05 AM	#12 (permalink)
Termite Member Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: Hawaii Posts: 1	Along the lines of Permanent Midnight and Drugstore Cowboy- Jesus Son (book by Denis Johnson, movie was OK. Definite narcotic tailspin and the movie included recovery.)

04-20-2008, 11:27 AM	#13 (permalink)
namelessone Member Join Date: Apr 2008 Posts: 15	The Days of Wine and Roses and My name is Bill W Are my favorites

04-21-2008, 01:34 AM	#14 (permalink)
dgillz Member Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Mobile, AL Posts: 976	"The Boost" with James Woods was a good movie, sadly he did not recover in that movie. Woods also played Bill Wilson in "My name is Bill W". __________________ If the only tool in your toolbox is a hammer, then all your problems look like nails....

04-21-2008, 05:47 AM	#15 (permalink)
NOMOMERLOTMAMMA No more merlot, more mamma Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: Hills, Ct Posts: 1,961 Blog Entries: 36	Things We Lost in the Fire (really good) You Kill Me (funny in a dry way) __________________ But I always think that the best way to know God is to love many things. ~Vincent van Gogh Last edited by NOMOMERLOTMAMMA; 04-21-2008 at 05:47 AM. Reason: remembered another one

04-22-2008, 06:18 PM	#16 (permalink)
beingjenagain ever closer... Join Date: Apr 2008 Location: Greensboro, NC Posts: 303	When a Man Loves a Woman- Meg Ryan and Andy Garcia Loveit! Makes me cry at the reality of it!

04-23-2008, 10:45 AM	#17 (permalink)
kj3880 Member Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: md Posts: 1,398	Try "Candy" with Heath Ledger. Turned out he had reason for being so good at playing an addict, sadly. This is a really good, harrowing look at what heroin can do. kj

04-24-2008, 08:21 AM	#18 (permalink)
lilbit Member Join Date: Apr 2008 Location: Leesburg,NJ Posts: 254 Blog Entries: 9	Hi...I'm lilbit and I'm an addict/alky....but SOBER. 1. Fight Club "Only when you lost everything....are you truely free" +Brad Pitt 2. SNATCH (turn "Pikey" speak on) "Do you know what nemisis means?" +Brad Pitt 3. Barfly "I don't hate the cops...I just feel better when they're not around" +Mickey Rourke 4. Last Temptation Of Christ "Why should I follow you?" +Willem DeFoe 5. Mosquito Coast ""A know it all...that's sometimes right" +Harrison Ford ++River Pheonix (hottie hot) 6. Trainspotting (USE subtitles!) "He lacks the moral fiber" +Euwan MacGreggor 7. Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas "Oh...he's my attorney" +Johnny Dep 8. Ticket to Heaven "What's wrong with you?" +ANYBODY that fears being brainwashed for a "greater" cause.... 9. SPUN "???????????????" +Brittany Murphy 10. Requiem for a Dream "This is not happening...and even if it was...that's okay" +Ellen Burnstyn 11. Pollok "I AM NOT BRINGING A CHILD INTO THIS!!!!!!!!!!" +Marcia Gay Harding ++Ed Harris IS POLLOK! 12. Harold & Maude The whole script is awesome........ +Ruth Gorden as the MOTHER of "Cougar"

04-24-2008, 09:28 AM	#19 (permalink)
zencat Double Trouble Addict Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: Ventura Co. California USA Posts: 1,117 Blog Entries: 7	Salton Sea. The Bad Lieutenant. Man with the Golden Arm. __________________

04-24-2008, 11:50 AM	#20 (permalink)
lilbit Member Join Date: Apr 2008 Location: Leesburg,NJ Posts: 254 Blog Entries: 9	Boy was that one movie there tuff to watch! I had to turn it off the first time...then watched it again later...GREAT MOVIE. Harvey Kietell (spelling wrong) IS THE MAN! Talk about hitting ROCK BOTTOM!?! That poor guy went thru the wringer and took everyone in his path with him....didn't get enough praise fer that film. Guess the whole full frontal nudity thing just scared the hell out of everyone. I had a heck of a time with the nuns getting raped in the church....FREAKED ME OUT! But...it was part of the disturbing story line. Funny how we get where we are today. I was also watching the John Adams story on HBO...where they tar and feathered people back in the good really old days. BOILLING HOT TAR...then the mob threw feathers on the poor fellow...then stuck him on top of a big log...and marched his twitchy body all through the town squares. AND I WAS ALL UPSET ABOUT GETTING THROWN OFF SOBERCIRCLE!?! YIKES! Anyhow...our countries fore-fathers were a ruff bunch. And can we talk about what the WOMEN had to go thru?!?....BEFORE THEY WERE BURNED AT THE STAKE?!!! DOUBLE YIKES!! Anyhooo...Stay clean and SOBER...just for today...all day...ONE DAY AT A TIME! PEACE!

04-24-2008, 07:06 PM	#21 (permalink)
rubycanoe Member Join Date: Sep 2005 Posts: 103	requim of a dream not sure of the exact spelling/title. very , very, good ,very graphic, anti-drug movie ,shows the horrors of drug addiction. requiem for a dream ?

04-24-2008, 11:03 PM	#22 (permalink)
zencat Double Trouble Addict Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: Ventura Co. California USA Posts: 1,117 Blog Entries: 7	When I watch movies like "Bad Lieutenant" I find myself amazed that the drugging life in the kill zone was that bad. At the time of my using I thought I was having fun with being whacked out crazy and all the stupid stuff was normal. Then I see drugging movies sober I start to think to myself, that crap is not so normal after all. For some those movies have no recovery value, to me there are like a new perspective. __________________

04-24-2008, 11:51 PM	#23 (permalink)
scraptastic Member Join Date: Apr 2008 Location: Lawrence, Kansas Posts: 4	I watched a movie called Citizen Jane a couple years ago....it gives an interesting spin on addiction recovery. It also deals a lot with abortion issues. One of those food for thought movies...

04-25-2008, 06:01 AM	#24 (permalink)
cookconfay Livin' on the EDGE Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: Gettin kicks on Rt 66 Posts: 4,049	I'm dancing as fast as I can I think it's with Jill Clayburn (?), she's addicted to valium....watched it over 15 yrs ago in treatment..... __________________ I'm beautiful inside & out. I do NOT need a man in my life to validate my existence!!! Connie

04-25-2008, 09:38 AM	#25 (permalink)
lilbit Member Join Date: Apr 2008 Location: Leesburg,NJ Posts: 254 Blog Entries: 9	Citizen Jane! Was that the movie with that peanut mouthed actress...umm..from Wild At Heart? What was her name? GREAT MOVIE! I KNEW A CHIC LIKE THAT! Knew some cats back in high school that huffed their way...though HIGH school. Shiny silver noses and all....heres a thought...ONE of 'em went on to be a PUBLIC DEFENDER! Now THAT'S NEAT-O! Well...Laura Dern...that's her name. RIGHT. Good movie.