Sentences with phrase «films about addiction»

Without adopting the romantic and moralistic cliches that have crippled many other films about addiction, Gus Van Sant directs Matt Dillon, Kelly Lynch, James Le Gros and Heather Graham in one of the most influential films of the late 1980s.

Not exact matches

The film is intended to educate parents, community members, and middle - school to college - aged children about the dangers of addiction and how to avoid becoming a victim.

How good or bad the standards are, is up to you, but the film tricks you into thinking that it's about internet addiction, an ailment that maybe even some of us suffer, but it's actually about online videogames, MMORPGs to be more specific, and that's what you should expect, a movie about Videogame Junkies, young people throwing their life away just to stay a couple of hours more in front of the screen.

Hansen - Love's films (four features thus far) are «about» many things — first love, family life, suicide, drug addiction — but the plot is not paramount.

Director Abel Ferrara applies his eccentric vision to the vampire genre with this cerebral «Art» film about graduate philosophy student Kathleen Conklin (Lili Taylor), who is bitten by an aggressive female vampire (Annabella Sciorra) and soon spirals into a nightmarish world of blood addiction and existential angst.

It's far more than a film about drug addiction - Trainspotting is about life, death and finding your place in the world.

Sometimes, a confusing atmosphere can actually enhance a film about drug addiction (see: Trainspotting), but here it is a serious distraction.

One of the most talked about and anticipated films at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival was without a doubt Don Jon's Addiction.

But the premise that carried the first film (and the original Japanese trilogy and mini-series)-- the idea of a media - borne STD (or drug addiction), transformed here into something carried aloft by the virulence of peer pressure — is instantly discarded along with its deadline gimmick in favour of about two hours of garbage involving killer deer, a somnambulantly - possessed kid (if demonic possession renders your nine - year - old docile as a fawn, that's a trade - off some might be willing to make), and poor Naomi Watts huffing and puffing and delivering awful, repetitive monologues at her catatonic kid.

Both «Hunger,» about the grueling hunger strike of the IRA's Bobby Sands, and «Shame» about the pain of sexual addiction, share this film's implacable style.

Inspired by Italian and American horror films of the 1980's, Road Trash is a vibrant fairy tale about a girl and her strange addiction.

Since then, Gordon - Levitt revealed that the title of the film which also stars Scarlett Johansson, Tony Danza, Julianne Moore and Brie Larson has been changed to simply Don Jon, because it's not just about the lead characters struggle with porn addiction.

The film is about their quest for happiness, their lack of attaining it, and the covering up of the unhappiness through their escapist addictions.

Chocolat, a film about chocolate addiction, was extremely sweet.

Trainspotting, a film about drug addiction, was wired and hip.

Finally following up his acclaimed 2006 debut Reprise, director Joachim Trier returns with a beautiful and uplifting film about drug addiction, depression and existential angst.

A musical interlude about a man's addiction to female rumps (and the bizarre method he chooses to overcome it) would be strange in most any film, but it even stands out in Guy Maddin's wackadoodle masterpiece The Forbidden Room.

With echoes of Gus Van Sant's «Drugstore Cowboy,» «Animals» is a breakout film for everyone involved, a riveting drama about codependence in the life of two junkies who may love each other so much that they're dragging each other down into their addictions.

«The Gambler,» Dec. 19 Oscar - winning screenwriter William Monahan and Backstage cover star Mark Wahlberg team up again for this remake of the film about an English professor with a gambling addiction.

In a year that has given us a compassionate story about addiction in «Flight,» we also have this equally tender film about mental illness.

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.

A movie about unsophisticated types wrestling with money concerns, drug addiction, and legal troubles could easily have been unpleasant, but director David O. Russell (Three Kings, I Heart Huckabees) renders the film upbeat and savory.

I saw films with stories about finding happiness even with cancer (Me and Earl and the Dying Girl), the struggles of addiction (I Smile Back), transgender women in Los Angeles (Tangerine), post-apocalyptic love triangles (Z for Zachariah), a teenage girl's sexual awakening (The Diary of a Teenage Girl), relationships between interviewer and interviewee (End of the Tour, True Story), washed up Olympians (The Bronze), two kids who go for a joy ride (Cop Car), psychological studies (The Stanford Prison Experiment), lesbian lovers coming - of - age (The Summer of Sangaile), being a single parent (People, Places, Things), and geeky kids learning how to grow up (Dope).

Like many films that focus on drug addiction, it's often difficult for a general audience to care about a character who exhibits zero redeeming moral value and spins farther into decline with every running minute.

The Gambler is a film about an English literature professor with a dark side, a gambling addiction that has gotten him into debt with Los Angeles gangsters to the tune of $ 240,000.

A biopic about controversial cartoonist John Callahan, the film's narrative is taken from his autobiography, focusing mostly on his alcohol addiction and recovery.

Family dramadies, contemporary stories about teenage girls, small and personal films that don't have death or disease or addiction at their core... these movies barely ever get nominated, much less win.