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October 25, 2010 By A Forever Recovery Leave a Comment

Requiem for a Dream

(2000) Ellen Burstyn, Jared Leto, Marlon Wayans
The film charts three seasons in the lives of Sara Goldfarb (Burstyn), her son Harry (Leto), Harry’s girlfriend Marion Silver (Jennifer Connelly), and Harry’s friend Tyrone C. Love (Wayans). Each character is ultimately destroyed by addiction and self-delusion.

Permanent Midnight

(1998) Ben Stiller, Owen Wilson, Elizabeth Hurley
Based on the autobiographical book “Permanent Midnight” by Jerry Stahl. Maria Bello stars as Kitty, a fellow detox survivor to whom Stahl relates his rise and fall. The movie also stars Owen Wilson as Stahl’s friend and fellow addict, Nicky; Elizabeth Hurley as his wife, Sandra; and Janeane Garofalo as a Hollywood agent, Jana. The real Stahl makes a cameo appearance as a doctor at a methadone clinic.

Another Day In Paradise

(1998) James Woods, Melanie Griffith, Vincent Kartheiser
A vending machine robbery by small time thief and drug addict Bobbie (Kartheiser) goes badly awry, and his friends contact street-wise thief and part-time druggie Mel (Woods) to patch him up. Recognizing a kindred spirit, Mel befriends Bobbie and his girlfriend Rosie (Natasha Gregson Wagner), inviting them to join him and his long-suffering girlfriend Sid (Griffith) on a drug robbery which should set them up for life.

Trainspotting

(1996) Ewan McGregor, Ewen Bremner, Johnny Lee Miller
Based on the novel of the same name by Irvine Welsh. The movie follows a group of heroin addicts in a late 1980s economically depressed area of Edinburgh and their passage through life.

The Basketball Diaries

(1995) Leonardo DiCaprio, Lorraine Bracco, Mark Wahlberg
Film adaptation of street tough Jim Carroll’s (DiCaprio) epistle about his kaleidoscopic free-fall into the harrowing world of drug addiction. As a member of a seemingly unbeatable high school basketball squad, Jim’s life centers around the basketball court and the court becomes a metaphor for the world in his mind.

The Man with the Golden Arm

(1955) Frank Sinatra, Eleanor Parker, Kim Novak
Frankie Machine (Sinatra) is released from prison with a set of drums and a new outlook on life. On the outside, he greets friends and acquaintances. Sparrow (Arnold Stang), who runs a con selling homeless dogs, clings to him like a young brother, but Schwiefka (Robert Strauss), whom Frankie used to deal for in his illegal card game, has more sinister reasons for welcoming him back.

 

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Marijuana Movies

October 22, 2010 By A Forever Recovery Leave a Comment

How High

(2001) Method Man, Redman
The plot is centered around two underachieving pot smokers – Silas (Method Man) and Jamal (Redman). When Silas’ friend Ivory (Chuck Davis) dies, Silas uses his ashes as fertilizer for a new batch of marijuana.

Outside Providence

(1999) Shawn Hatosy, Jon Abrahams
Timothy Dunphy (Hatosy), is a high school senior living in Pawtucket, Rhode Island, in 1974. He hangs out with a group of friends, mainly to smoke marijuana at the water tower overlooking town. His friend, Drugs Delaney (Abrahams), suggests going out to a local bar called “The Edge,”, which a sexually promiscuous classmate known as Bunny Cote is known to frequent.

Homegrown

(1998) Billy Bob Thornton, John Lithgow, Hank Azaria
When their kingpin is murdered, bungling small-fry marijuana harvesters in Northern California try to keep the business running, negotiating the biggest sale ever and keeping his death a secret. But when silent partners, the Mafia, the police, and other meddlers crash the party, they begin to realize they’re in over their heads.

Half Baked

(1998) Dave Chappelle, Jim Breuer, Harland Williams
Thurgood (Chappelle) and his friends Brian (Breuer) and Scarface (Diaz) are forced into selling marijuana stolen from the lab where Thurgood works as a “master of the custodial arts” (janitor) in order to bail their friend Kenny (Williams) out of jail, after he accidentally kills Buttercup, a diabetic police horse, by feeding it junk food.

Friday

(1995) Ice Cube, Chris Tucker, Bernie Mac
Craig Jones (Ice Cube) and Smokey (Chris Tucker), in urban Los Angeles. Straight-laced Craig has recently been fired from his job while attempting to collect his wages (he was allegedly caught on camera stealing cable receiver boxes), although he claims innocence.

The Stoned Age

(1994) Michael Kopelow, Bradford Tatum
The Stoned Age (also known as Tack’s Chicks) is an American comedy film directed by James Melkonian, set during the 1970s about two long haired stoners named Michael Hubbs and Joe Connolly and one night cruising Southern California looking for alcohol, parties, and girls.

Dazed and Confused

(1993) Matthew McConaughey, Ben Affleck, Milla Jovovich
As night turns to dawn, Pink (London), David (McConaughey), Don (Jenson), and several friends including Ron Slater (Cochrane) and Simone Kerr (Adams) decide to smoke marijuana on the 50-yard line of the football field. The police arrive on the scene, so they ditch the drugs.

Nice Dreams

(1981) Cheech Marin, Tommy Chong
The two stoners Cheech and Chong have a new business, an ice cream stand named “Happy Herb’s Nice Dreams.” The ice cream isn’t real— it’s made out of experimental marijuana, stolen from their friend Weird Jimmy’s plantation.

Cheech & Chong’s Next Movie

(1980) Cheech Marin, Tommy Chong
Cheech & Chong’s Next Movie opens with the two aging stoners going to WELLAND to get very HIGH. They then go to the mayo house hold and smoke a very large amount of cannabis and experiment with LSD. The rest of the film centers on Cheech wanting to get together with a social worker he likes, and wants the place to himself in order to seduce her.

Up In Smoke

(1978) Cheech Marin, Tommy Chong, Stacy Keach
Anthony (Chong) is picked up while hitchhiking by the equally enthusiastic smoker Pedro de Pacas (Cheech). They share a large joint. Police find their car parked on a traffic median with them in it, discover that they are clearly high and arrest them. At trial, the pair are released on a technicality after the judge is discovered to be drinking vodka.

Easy Rider

(1969) Peter Fonda, Dennis Hopper
The 1969 film Easy Rider was written and directed by Peter Fonda, Terry Southern, and Dennis Hopper that portrays the lifestyle of two hippy, drug using bikers. The film actually landed a spot in the Library of Congress National Registry in 1998 because of its iconic status of the times and the changes that the movie sparked in Hollywood in the late 1960’s.

 

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Alcohol In Movies

October 22, 2010 By A Forever Recovery 2 Comments

The Hangover

(2009) Bradley Cooper, Ed Helms, Heather Graham
Four friends who travel to Las Vegas for a bachelor party, only to wake up the next morning not remembering a thing and missing the groom, whose wedding is scheduled to occur the next day.

Superbad

(2007) Greg Mottola, Jonah Hill, Michael Cera
Evan (Cera) and Seth (Hill) are long-time friends in their senior year of high school, about to leave for different colleges. Their mutual friend, Fogell (Christopher Mintz-Plasse), has plans to acquire a fake ID, so Seth agrees to buy alcohol for a party that his crush, Jules (Emma Stone), is hosting.

Leaving Las Vegas

(1995) Nicholas Cage, Elizabeth Shue
Ben Sanderson (Cage) is a career alcoholic who has hit rock bottom. Trashing all personal and professional ties to his L.A. existence, he sets off for the lights of Vegas on a mission: to drink himself to death. There he meets Sera (Shue), a beautiful, seen-it-all hooker. From the moment Ben and Sera connect, they form a unique bond based upon unconditional acceptance and mutual respect that will change each of them forever.

The Lost Weekend

(1945) Ray Milland, Jane Wyman
Don Birnam (Milland) is a writer whose lust for booze consumes his career, his life, and his loved ones. The film was based on the novel “The Lost Weekend” by Charles R. Jackson about a writer who drinks heavily out of frustration over the accusation that he had an affair with one of his buddies while in college.

 

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