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