Good film about people battling alcoholism?

[Filmfan93]

Can you recommend me a decent movie about a person/people battling alcoholism? (Except Flight, I have watched this one a dozen times). Thank you and much appreciated.

 

[gwynplaine]

Leaving Las Vegas
The Lost Week End
Days of Wine and Roses
Smashed
A Monkey in Winter

 

[C. Lee]

What gwynplaine said, plus a couple others -

28 DAYS starring Sandra Bullock and Viggo Mortensen
WHEN A MAN LOVES A WOMAN starring Andy Garcia and Meg Ryan

 

[CGHulk]

For historical measure, The Lost Weekend was the first film to take alcoholism seriously and to show the negative effects of it, previously in films the drunk was always the silly drunk.

 

[gwynplaine]

Yeah, the great W. C. Fields pretty much made a career out of itt:

 

[flickchick85]

I think Smashed is a good one because while it skims over the "hard part" of actually getting sober (and I think it does this because so many shows/movies fixate on that part), it actually shines a light on the oft-overlooked aspect of what you do AFTER you're sober, existing in the life you had built for yourself as an alcoholic, with the people around you who knew you and still know you as such.

 

[Bruce Banner]

Was the movie Clean and Sober with Michael Keaton about drugs or alcohol?

When a Man loves a Woman, with Andy Garcia and Meg Ryan. I don't know if it was any good or not. I think Ryan's character was the one with alcoholism.

 

[Matt Mortem]

Crazy Heart. 'Nuff said.

 

[Thundercrack85]

Strangely enough the first thing that pops to my mind is Roger Rabbit.

 

[gwynplaine]

Also Barfly, an interesting Barbet Schroeder film starring Mickey Rourke as legendary writer and drunk Charles Bukowski.

 

[MessiahDecoy123]

Leaving Las Vegas!

Dat Elizabeth Shue!

 

[Pickleweasel]

Everything must go

 

[ComicChick]

http://whatculture.com/film/8-very-thoughtful-films-about-alcoholism.php/8

 

[Gort Baringa]

Cat Balllou

 

[Black Narcissus]

Beerfest.

 

[Tanin]

The Shining.

 

[Moridin]

Not a film but a documentary, Metallica's Some Kind of Monster. Originally meant to be a "making of the new album" type TV series or DVD companion, it turned into a documentary on the implosion of one of the biggest bands in the world, with James Hetfield (singer/guitarist) and his alcoholism/recovery at the heart of it.