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When a Man Loves a Woman (1994)
What Love
Built A Secret Could Destroy...
Director: Louis Mandoki, rated R for
language, alcohol abuse
  Starring: Meg Ryan,
Andy García, Lauren Tom, Ellen Burstyn, Philip Seymour Hoffman,
Tina Majorino, Mae Whitman
DML Rating:
★★★★★★★★☆☆
- great
"Nothing
happened, Michael. Nothing has to happen for me to have a bad
day. That's the thrilling part
of all this. It just comes and
hits and runs me over like a g**damn freight train." –
Alice
Why watch this?
It's a superb, yet very painful, story about battling alcoholism.
Plot Summary:
This is a agonizing story about an ordinary woman, Alice, who is
an alcoholic. After a serious incident, she realizes that she
has to leave her family and enter rehab. She finds help at rehab
and moves back home. Her husband, Michael, has trouble
re-adjusting to the new, sober Alice, who is now stronger, more
vocal, AND still fighting her addiction. It's going to take her
husband to confront how much he was also part of her problem.
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Dad's Preview:
This was not the film I thought it would be, thanks to someone mis-marketing
it as a romance. This is an established relationship
that is forced to deal the impact of alcoholism. The
dramatic performances by Ryan and
Garcia are top-notch! It is one of the best films about
addiction, enablers, recovery, and how hard it is for addicts to reinsert
themselves back into their old life, especially when the reason
for their addiction remains. |
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Touchstone
Pictures, Avnet/Kerner Prod.;
Buena Vista
Pictures Dist.
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