Brad Lamm, founder of West Hollywood’s Breathe Life Healing Centers, offers his picks of recent movies that capture the trials and triumphs of addiction and recovery. For more from Variety‘s Recovery Issue, in which prominent entertainment figures offer insights on navigating a sober life in Hollywood, click here.
Crazy Heart, 2009
Director, writer: Scott Cooper
Jeff Bridges plays a fading, alcoholic country music star who begins a doomed romance with a writer (Maggie Gyllenhaal) that forces him to reassess his life.
You very well might have missed this alcohol-drenched gemstone of a flick inspired by the real-life song-cycle of country music star Hank Thompson. Bridges won the Oscar for best actor for “Crazy Heart,” and you deserve to see why.
The Hangover, 2009
Director: Todd Phillips
Writers: Jon Lucas, Scott Moore
Three friends in Las Vegas for a bachelor party wake up after a bacchanal of drugs and booze with...
Crazy Heart, 2009
Director, writer: Scott Cooper
Jeff Bridges plays a fading, alcoholic country music star who begins a doomed romance with a writer (Maggie Gyllenhaal) that forces him to reassess his life.
You very well might have missed this alcohol-drenched gemstone of a flick inspired by the real-life song-cycle of country music star Hank Thompson. Bridges won the Oscar for best actor for “Crazy Heart,” and you deserve to see why.
The Hangover, 2009
Director: Todd Phillips
Writers: Jon Lucas, Scott Moore
Three friends in Las Vegas for a bachelor party wake up after a bacchanal of drugs and booze with...
- 11/5/2019
- by Brad Lamm
- Variety Film + TV
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