Alcohol Abuse: Lean on Me – Fullscreen
Lean on Me – Fullscreen
After earning rave notices for powerful supporting turns as a pimp in Street Smart (1987) and an alcohol abuse counselor in Clean and Sober (1988), actor Morgan Freeman began his ascent to stardom with this, his first lead role in a major motion picture. Freeman is real-life high school principal Joe Clark, a tough, harsh educator and administrator who in 1987 is given a nearly impossible task by his old… Continue reading
A Star Is Born – Fullscreen
A Star Is Born – Fullscreen
A Star is Born came into being when producer David O. Selznick decided to tell a “true behind-the-scenes” story of Hollywood. The truth, of course, was filtered a bit for box-office purposes, although Selznick and an army of screenwriters based much of their script on actual people and events. Janet Gaynor stars as Esther Blodgett, the small-town girl who dreams of Hollywood stardom, a role later played by both… Continue reading
The Jackhammer Massacre – Fullscreen Subtitle Dolby
The Jackhammer Massacre – Fullscreen Subtitle Dolby
Forget the old anti-drug television commercial with the egg and the frying pan, the drug-addicted psychopath in Joe Castro’s Jackhammer Massacre is all the ammunition that Nancy Reagan will ever need to convince youngsters to “Just Say No.” A formerly successful businessman whose dangerous drug addiction leaves him jobless and indebted to a ruthless drug dealer, Jack Magnus is injected with a lethal dosage and left for dead… Continue reading
The Longest Yard – Fullscreen
The Longest Yard – Fullscreen
One of the toughest and best-remembered sports movies of the 1970s gets a humorous makeover in this comedy. Paul “Wrecking” Crewe (Adam Sandler) was once a famous professional football player, but after several years out of the limelight and an alcohol problem have taken their toll, Crewe is arrested for a serious traffic accident aggravated by the fact he was drunk. Crewe is sentenced to Allenville Penitentiary, where Warden Hazen… Continue reading
Santouri: The Music Man – Fullscreen Subtitle
Santouri: The Music Man – Fullscreen Subtitle
A heroin-addicted musician finds his growing dependence on drugs taking a sizable toll on both his career and his marriage in Iranian director Dariush Mehrjui incisive addiction drama. Ali (Bahram Radan) plays a traditional stringed instrument called the santoor. A liberal young musician married to the beautiful Hanieh (Golshifteh Farahani), Ali suffers from a crippling dependency on heroin. Could it be that his country’s current cultural repression is… Continue reading
Tideland – Fullscreen AC3 Dolby
Tideland – Fullscreen AC3 Dolby
Following the death of her drug-addicted mother, a whimsical young girl follows her chemically dependent father to a remote prairie house to discover a wondrous world of magical fireflies and nocturnal bog men in this hallucinatory childhood fantasy from visionary filmmaker Terry Gilliam. Noah (Jeff Bridges) is a burnt-out rock star whose post-superstar voyage to obscurity is hastened by a serious drug addiction that is also shared with his wild-eyed… Continue reading