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A Story of Truth, Lies and an American Addiction". [3] It stars Glenn Close, Mila Kunis, and Stephen Root. The film had its world premiere at the Sundance Film Festival on January 25, 2020. It was released in a limited release on April 30, 2021, followed by video on demand on May 21, 2021, by Vertical Entertainment.
Films about addiction, a neuropsychological disorder characterized by a persistent and intense urge to engage in certain behaviors, often usage of a drug, despite substantial harm and other negative consequences.
Cinema therapy is defined by Segen's Medical Dictionary as: A form of therapy or self-help that uses movies, particularly videos, as therapeutic tools. Cinema therapy can be a catalyst for healing and growth for those who are open to learning how movies affect people and to watching certain films with conscious awareness.
28 Days is a 2000 American comedy-drama film directed by Betty Thomas and written by Susannah Grant. Sandra Bullock stars as Gwen Cummings, a newspaper columnist obliged to enter rehabilitation for alcoholism.
Verbinski and Haythe also state that the movie took visual and tonal inspiration from Silent era expressionist films and Universal Classic Monsters films, as well as the films Re-Animator (1985), Hellraiser (1987), Jacob's Ladder (1990), and Shutter Island (2010), the works of H.P. Lovecraft (namely The Dunwich Horror), and filmmaker Guillermo ...
The experience of Zarrow, Sam, Joe, and Zarrow's assailant ripple quickly out to include the connected lives of a housewife struggling with alcoholism, a stoner teen desperate to lose his virginity, a brilliant but failed writer fighting addiction, two parents confronting the prospect of terminal illness, and a brilliant grad student who harms ...
Pink Floyd The Wall (1982) – hashish; this film is often considered a drug-induced movie (LSD, psychedelics) Pirates of Silicon Valley (1999) – cannabis, LSD; The Place Beyond the Pines (2012) - cannabis, MDMA, oxycontin; Platoon (1986) – cannabis, and opium; Platoon Leader (1988) – heroin; Playing God (1997) – fentanyl, morphine and ...
Quitting (Chinese: 昨天; lit. 'Yesterday') is a 2001 Chinese drama film directed by Zhang Yang, starring and based on the true life story of Jia Hongsheng.Jia, an actor and former drug addict, battled his addiction to marijuana and heroin for five years from 1992 to 1997.