Sentences with phrase «film about alcoholism»

Trying to balance a humorous, honest and emotional film about alcoholism seems like an impossible task but it is what James Ponsoldt's Smashed attempts to do.

Between Smashed and now this, Ponsoldt makes some of the best films about alcoholism and the realities of struggling with it.

Not exact matches

Beyond the alcoholism and the corporate commentary and the robot invasions (quite a potent combination), this is first and foremost a film about growing up.

Although this may be true of some of your earlier films as well, I thought that there was a strong subtext about alcoholism.

In this period, he tackled an Oscar - winning drama about alcoholism (The Lost Weekend), two well - regarded film noirs (Double Indemnity, Sunset Boulevard), a war drama (Stalag 17), two light - hearted rom - coms (Sabrina, Seven Year Itch) a gripping murder - mystery (Witness for the Prosecution) and perhaps the funniest American movie of all time (Some Like It Hot).

Winstead has an awesome monologue about her life, the affect sobering up can have on a person's life without only positive outcomes, and the image of Alcoholics Anonymous that encapsulates what makes this film one of the best presentations of alcoholism captured on film.

Adapted by Kassell from Steven Fechter's play of the same name, «The Woodsman» is at heart a film about the throes of recovery, but its studious avoidance of 12 - step therapy - speak, and its focus on a compulsive disorder that is morally inexcusable and universally repugnant, ensure that it has a far greater dramatic impact than similar films dealing with, say, alcoholism or drug addiction.

One of the best plane crash sequences in all of film highlights this drama about a gifted pilot, suffering from alcoholism, on a collision course with authorities and his own illness.

It's one of those depressing social commentary films about how alcoholism destroys people's lives.