| DVD's relating to recovery and/or to alcoholism |
| 28 Days 2000 Sandra Bullock plays an alcoholic in denial whose latest bender with boozer boyfriend Jasper (Dominic West) ruins the wedding of her sister (Elizabeth Perkins) and lands her in a month-long rehab program with the requisite gang of struggling drunks and junkies. At amazon.com. |
| Clean and Sober 1988 Michael Keaton stars in this 1988 drama about one man's struggle against cocaine addiction. After a series of setbacks, his character seeks refuge in a drug rehabilitation program. "Kathy Baker leads a superb supporting cast as a recovering alcoholic and battered wife whose flagging self-esteem is boosted by Keaton's attention," writes Jeff Shannon at amazon.com. |
| Days of Wine and Roses 1962 "Days of Wine and Roses is one film not to watch if you are melancholic by nature, as this tale of middle-class alcoholism rings very true. Jack Lemmon and Lee Remick are the besotted couple who find that life is not always fun when viewed through ros�-colored glasses. He's the San Francisco business executive who marries Remick and seduces her into a cocktail culture that soon overpowers them both."--Rochelle O'Gorman at amazon.com. |
| Lost Weekend 1945 Ray Milland At amazon.com. |
| When a Man Loves a Woman 1994 Andy Garcia and Meg Ryan in a movie about a woman whose alcoholism almost destroys her family. At amazon.com. |