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Line 1: − '''''Clean and Sober''''' is a 1988 film written by Tod Carroll and directed by Glenn Gordon Caron. The film stars [[Michael Keaton]], who gives the performance of a lifetime as Daryl Poynter, a cocaine [[addiction|addict]] who realizes his life is out of control when he wakes up in bed with an unconscious woman. Keaton vividly and chillingly portrays the [[isolation]] and [[denial]] of addiction.+ + + + + + + + + +
Alcoholics Anonymous in action
In '''Clean and Sober''', [[Michael Keaton]] gives the performance of a lifetime as Daryl Poynter, a cocaine [[addiction|addict]] who realizes his life is out of control when he wakes up in bed with an unconscious woman. Keaton vividly and chillingly portrays the [[isolation]] and [[denial]] of addiction. The film also shows how addictions overlap: Daryl is a drinker, an incessant smoker, and a [[sex addict|womanizer]].
==The 12 Steps==
The viewer gets an intimate look at [[Alcoholics Anonymous]] in action, as Daryl is sent to a meeting in a Catholic Church to get a [[sponsor]]. He tries to pick up the meeting leader on the pretext of asking her to be his sponsor. Seeing right through him, she suavely declines but sends a man named Richard to meet him, and Daryl gets his phone number.
Later, when he's out on a 24-hour pass trying to score drugs, he accidentally calls Richard. He tells him to meet him in 90 minutes and to do a "searching and fearless [[moral inventory]]".
This is a movie that hits all the right notes about addiction and treatment.
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