28 Days
A disastrous drunken episode lands successful New York journalist Gwen Cummings (Sandra Bullock) inrehab where she encounters a bizarre assortment of characters and some unique rituals during her touching and often hilarious road to recovery.
- Starring: Sandra Bullock, Viggo Mortensen
- Directed by: Betty Thomas
- Runtime: 1 hour 45 minutes
- Release year: 2000
- Studio: Columbia
Trainspotting (1996)
94 min - Renton, deeply immersed in the Edinburgh drug scene, tries to clean up and get out, despite the allure of the drugs and influence of friends.
Director:
Danny Boyle
Traffic (2000)
A conservative judge is appointed by the President to spearhead America's escalating war against drugs, only to discover that his teenage daughter is an addict.
Director:
Steven Soderbergh
When a Man Loves a Woman (1994)
An airline pilot and his wife are forced to face the consequences of her alcoholism when her addictions threaten her life and their daughter's safety. While the woman enters detox, her husband must face the truth of his enabling behavior.
Director:
Luis Mandoki
Drugstore Cowboy (1989)
A realistic road movie about a drug addict, his 'family', and their inevitable decline into crime. Several drug users come together in this crime drama during the 1970s and because they are low on cash, end up cleaning out a number of drug stores all over the country. Bob Hughes played by Matt Dillon realizes that he needs to clean up his act after disaster strikes and he has no other choice.
Not My Kid (TV 1985)
A teenaged drug addict is sent to Dr. Royce's controversial drug intervention program where the addicts in the program confront each other in supervised group meetings...
Not My Kid is about a teenager who enterer a drug intervention program supervised by the infamous Dr. Royce. The drug addicts are made to interact with each other during group meetings and share stories from their past. The girl’s parents find this aspect horrifying and remain in denial till she takes them through the details of her drug addiction.
Director:
Michael Tuchner
Clean and Sober (1988)
Michael Keaton plays Daryl Poynter, a hot shot real estate agent who just happens to have a cocaine and drinking problem...
Daryl Poyner is a well-known real estate agent who is battling with a severe cocaine problem. He wakes up one morning beside a woman who seems to have overdosed on cocaine and he also finds out that some money has been stolen from his bank account. He runs to a drug rehabilitation centre in order to avoid the law which is when he meets Morgan Freeman. This is when he realizes that he ran to the right place.
Director:
Glenn Gordon CaronWriter:
Tod Carroll
London Kills Me (1991)
For want of a nail a shoe was lost, for want of a shoe... a young man's life is almost lost.....
London Kills Me is about a young man who wants to pull himself out of the drug scene in London. However, he can only do this if he can present the drug lord with a pair of shoes.
Director:
Hanif KureishiWriter:
Hanif Kureishi
Lady Sings the Blues (1972)
The story of the troubled life and career of the legendary Jazz singer, Billie Holiday.
Billie Holiday turned Elinore Harris, spends most of her life as a prostitute and a cleaning woman. She is raped several times after which she fulfills her dream of making it big as a jazz singer. The pressure of it all leads her to abuse substances like heroin. Her friends help her through it all and encourage her to give up the habit.
Director:
Sidney J. Furie
Little Fish (2005)
Little Fish is about a recovering drug addict named Tracey Heart who must help her ex-boyfriend leave behind his addiction as well. It almost triggers off her own addiction but she manages to stay afloat and realizes that she has to face the music in the end.
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