Summary: John lives with his mother, Jean, in a social housing suburb and ekes out a meager existence as a taxi driver. After finding his mother unconscious from yet another night of binge drinking, John learns that without treatment, she will not have much longer to live. Desperate to save their broken family, he offers his services to a petty criminal in order to pay for Jean's costly rehab treatment,...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Film Movement 2016
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA GLASummary: Dixon Steele is an alcoholic screenwriter who has some success but is now in the midst of a long dry spell. One of his neighbors is Laurel Gray, a would-be actress and a smart cookie. Steele is a bitter, angry man who succeeds in insulting everyone he sees while drinking at noon in his usual hangout. Dix has taken a job adapting a trashy novel for the screen--but he doesn't want to read the...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia Pictures Industries 2003
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA INSummary: Based on Eugene O'Neill's 1956 autobiograpy, this film depicts a day in the life of a family deteriorating under drug addiction, alcoholism, and imminent death.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Republic Pictures 2004
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA LONCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Long 2004Summary: A young Dublin taxi driver gets tangled up in the world of human trafficking while trying to save his mother from addiction and provide for his younger brother with Down syndrome.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Film Movement 2014
View online at Hoopla
Summary: Frank Elgin is an alcoholic actor and singer who gets a second change at stardom. His long suffering wife, Georgie, and their marriage is put to the test. Frank is desperate to make a come back and Bernie Dodd is the hotshot Broadway director in need of a "name" star for his new stage production. Georgie is both weary of her husband's weaknesses and Dodd's motives. When Georgie appears to be...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount 2004
Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD COUCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA COUSummary: Two people meet in Las Vegas and form a bond based on unconditional acceptance and mutual respect that will change each of them forever.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: MGM Home Entertainment 1998
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA LEASummary: A would-be writer's dissatisfaction with his life leads him on a three-day binge. This film gives an uncompromising look at the devestating effects of alcoholism.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios 2000
Sorry, no copies available
Place a hold to request this item.Mullan, Peter
Summary: Joseph, a widower who finds himself battling rage, earns a chance to turn his life around after meeting Hannah, a Christian worker at a charity shop.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Strand Releasing 2012