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Features: DVD, Scene Access, Pan and Scan (TV Format)
A drug addict hides out at a rehabilitation clinic, and actuallyundergoes treatment. A serious, subtle, and realistic look at the physical/emotional detoxification of an obnoxious, substanceabusing real estate broker; unpredictable and powerful without moralizing.
Editor's Note
A real-estate salesman whose addiction to drugs and alcohol is destroying his life, reluctantly enters a detoxification program. Along with his physical recovery, he begins his emotional recuperation when he falls for a fellow patient.
Plot Summary
A Philadelphia real estate agent's life is on a collision course with disaster. After sharing cocaine with a girl he meets in a bar, he wakes up the next day in her bed to find she's dead from an overdose. Trouble also looms at work since he owes $92,000 that he embezzled from the company and lost in a risky investment. Meanwhile, his cocaine problem is becoming progressively worse.| To avoid the mounting pressure placed on him at work and the unresolved issues surrounding the girl's death, he checks himself into a drug treatment facility, mainly because it promises complete confidentiality. There, he thinks, he can avoid the neverending inquiries; what he finds at the clinic, though, is a tough counselor who does not take recovery lightly, and who forces him to reassess his motivations for becoming a patient.
| Features | Region 1 | | Snap Case | | Full Frame - 1.33 | | Audio:
| Dolby Digital Surround - English |
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Release Information
|  | Studio: Warner |
| Release Date: 6/1/2004 |
| Running Time: 124 minutes |
| Original Release Date: 1988 | | Catalog ID: 11824 | | UPC: 00085391182429 | | Number of Discs: 1 |
Audio & Video
| | Original Language: English | | Available Audio Tracks: English [CC], English | | Video: Color |
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| | Professional Reviews | New York Times
"...[The film] works slowly, carefully and finally quite affectingly....The perfect role for [Keaton]..." 08/10/1988 p.C17Los Angeles Times
"...There is a momentum here, a quality of risk and an urgency to the story..." 08/10/1988 p.C1 USA Today
"...Michael Keaton takes a successful career stretch as a 'what-me-worry' type....[Freeman] is terrific..." 03/17/1989 p.3D |
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