CarolD

Yes,,,we have done this before....but as we have a lot of new comers...

Drining and Drugging Movies

'Days of Wine and Roses' Kee Remick and Jack Lemmon

'My Name Is Bill W.' James Woods and James Gardner.
It was a Hallmark feature.

'Leaving Los Vegas' Nick Cage

'Barfly' Mickey O'Rouke and Fay Dunaway.

'Who's Afraid Of Virginia Wolfe?' Richard Burtom Elizabeth Taylor. Orginally a play.

'Lomg Days Journey Into Night' Jason Robards did one version. It's a Eugene O'Neill play orginally.

'Panic In Needle Park' Al Pacino....driggie tale.
Taken from a true story.


Those are my Oscar picks....
Next?

AndrewBeen

"Come Back Little Sheba" Burt Lancaster THE BEST

"Rush" Jason Patric, Jennifer Jason Leigh

"Man with the Golden Arm" Frank Sinatra(!)

"Dead Ringers"

bob123

Not so much a drinking film, but Apocalypse Now. The scene where Martin Sheen is in a complete mess in the hotel room. Watched it just now, excellent reminder.

AndrewBeen

bob, great film. I did some reading on making of. Sheen was actually getting blottoed during film -- plus whatever drugs were on set. Coppola was just talking to him all night while filming, getting more and more inside his head and generally f'ing with the guy until he got the take he wanted. Pretty sadistic film making. Sheen later had a heart attack while filming causing some delay...

findingout

It just doesn't get better than this one (but perhaps I think that because the family in this movie/play is my family in so many ways.) I remember watching it a long time ago, well before I got sober, and never noticing that while the mother is a morphine addict, Dad, the two sons and possibly even the maid are full blown alcoholics. Denial, Lying, Drinking To Cope, Blaming Other People, and much, much, more. There's the version with Katharine Hepburn and Jason Robards and also another version with Laurence Olivier playing the father. Two years ago, there was a revival of the play off broadway and I still kick myself for not getting to New York to see it. Anyways, two thumbs up in a circle

Also "Clean and Sober" with Michael Keaton.

livenletlive

"Trees Lounge" with Steve Buchemi

"Lost Weekend"

BubbaBob

Wanna see the end game of our disease? Watch "Deer Hunter". That's where it always ends.

BubbaBob

Pick-a-name

I read an interesting story about Jason Robarts doing this play in the book "Courage to Change". I believe it was while doing this play that Robarts evidently hit his own "bottom" and went into recovery.

Pick-a-name

What about "It's a Wonderful Life"?

Pernell Johnson

Has anyone seen the "Dirty Lieutenant"

2Step

"Bad Santa" - Maybe not one to scare you straight but it was very funny

I'm looking for a drinking-druggin movie that really makes you want to stay away from alcohol, kinda like Leaving Las Vegas, but even stronger. One that actual alcoholics can identify with.

KelKel

The Upside of Anger... w/ Kevin Costner

I found this film to be an affirmation about the power of anger and resentments.
In my own recovery those two elements have driven me to the bottle in times of weak spirituality.
It made me grateful that I found tools in AA to help me get past these difficult emotions and to stay away from poison... but it takes effort on my behalf.

AndrewBeen

Oh that one's easy: Requiem for a Dream.

Hands down.

2Step

I'm renting a few movies listed in this thread tonight

KelKel

I recently saw "Who's afraid of Virginia Wolfe?" wow, no wonder Elizabeth Taylor won an oscar.... what an honest and ugly picture of the drunken lifestyle of an alcoholic.

Pick-a-name

"Cat on a Hot Tin Roof"....another Elizabeth Taylor and I think maybe a young Paul Newman

KelKel

Chrystal
During a high-speed drunken chase, Joe (Billy Bob Thornton) wrecks his car, in the process killing his young son and crippling his wife, Chrystal (Lisa Blount). After a 16-year stretch in prison, Joe returns to his hometown in the Ozark Mountains with one goal: to make amends with Chrystal, who still suffers intense physical and psychological pain. Harry Dean Stanton co-stars.

Mogqua

"The Boost"
(James Woods, Sean Young)

And as an allegory of out/in and the cruisers to avoid:

"Fight Club"
(Brad Pitt, Helena Bonham Carter)

Thorn

Gotta agree with "The Lost Weekend." That one will scare you straight. Stunning portrayal of the alcoholic. The book is even scarier.

livenletlive

Also,

The Salton Sea with Val Kilmer. Great movie about what happens when addicted to meth. Scary as hell. Glad I never got hooked on that s***.