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| − | + | 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]]. | |
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| + | 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. | ||
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| + | 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]]". | ||
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| + | This is a movie that hits all the right notes about addiction and treatment. | ||
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Revision as of 17:22, January 2, 2010
In Clean and Sober, Michael Keaton gives the performance of a lifetime as Daryl Poynter, a cocaine 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 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.