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In '''Clean and Sober''', [[Michael Keaton]] gives the performance of a lifetime as Daryl Poynter, a cocaine [[addiction|addict]], a drinker, an incessant smoker, and a [[sex addict|womanizer]]. Keaton vividly and chillingly portrays the [[isolation]] and [[denial]] of addiction.  

'''''Clean and Sober''''' is a 1988 film written by Tod Caroll and directed by Glenn Gordon Caron. The film stars [[Michael Keaton]], who gives the performance of a lifetime<ref>"Keaton has never been better--or more desperate and wired ... " [http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/19881231/COMMENTARY/40308032/1023 The Best 10 Movies of 1988] - [[Roger Ebert]]</ref>

as Daryl Poynter, a cocaine [[addiction|addict]], a drinker, an incessant smoker, and a [[sex addict|womanizer]]. Keaton vividly and chillingly portrays the [[isolation]] and [[denial]] of addiction.  

==The 12 Steps==

==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.  

The viewer gets an intimate (but secular) 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]]".

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. Addictions can overlap, and the [[First Step]] is the hardest: admitting that you are powerless over your addiction. A glaring flaw of this typical Hollywood treatment is the omission of any mention, however oblique, to a [[God|Higher Power]].

This is a movie that hits all the right notes about addiction and treatment. Addictions can overlap, and the [[First Step]] is the hardest: admitting that you are powerless over your addiction. A glaring flaw of this typical Hollywood treatment is the omission of any mention, however oblique, to a [[God|Higher Power]].

 

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