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,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Film Movement 2016
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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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia Pictures Industries 2003
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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
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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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Film Movement 2014
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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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount 2004
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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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: MGM Home Entertainment 1998
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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
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA LOSMullan, 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
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: An alcoholic, failed attorney is reduced to ambulance chasing. A friend gives him a supposedly easy malpractice case which becomes a last chance to redeem himself and his career.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2006
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: The tenth season picks up six months after last season's finale: Frank uses his leg injury to collect as many prescription drugs as possible and his exploits lead him to an old friend.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV SHASummary: World War I veteran William Wilson has everything: loving wife, good health, Wall Street career --and a "drinking problem." Penniless overnight when the stock market crashes, Bill quickly descends into a stormy sea of booze. Then he meets Bob Smith, an Ohio surgeon with the same "problem." Together they discover a way to stay sober --one day at a time, and their mutual triumph would soon become...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2006
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Scrappy, stubborn and strong, the Gallaghers are tested by changing times, but Season Six finds them older, wiser, and better at playing the system. Used to their natural state of chaos, the Gallaghers are as surprised as anyone at how life is turning out for them. But as they come into their own and find out who they really are is it really possible that they could grow apart for good?
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV SHASummary: The Gallaghers have always scraped by, but Season Seven finds them finally getting a leg up. When Frank awakens from a coma to learn that his family tossed him in the river, he declares war, Gallagher vs. Gallagher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV SHASummary: The final season finds the Gallaghers and the South Side at a crossroads. As Frank confronts his own mortality, Lip struggles with becoming the family patriarch. Newlyweds Ian and Mickey figure out their committed relationship, while Deb embraces single motherhood. Lastly, Cart finds an unlikely new career in law enforcement while Kevin and V fight for their life on the South Side.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV SHARea, Amy C.
Summary: "Introduces young readers to the dangers of alcohol addiction and shows ways that users have found help. Learn about the physical and mental effects of alcohol abuse and its negative impact on lives."--Childsworld.com
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Publisher / Publication Date: Momentum 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 362.292 REASummary: Frank comes out of a drug-induced haze and decides it's finally time to be a contributing member of society. Fiona faces hard decisions when she discovers her success as a landlord may mean someone else's misfortune. Lip struggles with staying sober, while Ian takes up a cause in hopes of getting back with Trevor. Debbie builds her future at welding school while juggling life as a single...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Bros. Home Entertainment 2018
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV SHAGrace, Annie
Summary: Aims to help alcoholics change their relationship with drinking, showing the psychological and cultural aspects of alcoholism.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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Place a hold to request this item.Clay, Dan
Summary: Mark Davis put the dress on for a joke: the other guys did it too, for the talent show. But when his boyfriend saw Mark in that dress, everything changed. Now Mark has given up on love. His older brother, Eric, tells him "Be yourself! Your full sequin-y self." When he realizes that Eric has problems of his own, Mark's escape to become someone else-- however briefly-- becomes an unexpected...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Roaring Brook Press 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC CLAChapple, Simon
Summary: Are you tired of thinking about drinking? Hands up if you believe any of the following about drinking alcohol to be true: I can't have fun without alcohol. Imagine going to a party without drinking! it makes me feel less anxious or depressed; it helps me sleep; I can't relax without it; it makes me entertaining to be around; it fits the lifestyle of my boozy friends; I like the taste of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Elevator Digital Ltd. 2019
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Place a hold to request this item.Macy, William H.
Summary: Follows the lives of the Gallagher family, six children who live with their alcoholic father.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019