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Clean and Sober
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Overview

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6.6/10   2,405 votes
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Writer (WGA):
Tod Carroll (written by)
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Release Date:
10 August 1988 (USA) more
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Thirty remarkable days in the life of an ordinary man.
Plot:
Michael Keaton plays Daryl Poynter, a hot shot real estate agent who just happens to have a cocaine and drinking problem... more | full synopsis
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1 win more
User Comments:
Keaton Robbed At Oscar Time more (29 total)

Cast

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Michael Keaton ... Daryl Poynter

Kathy Baker ... Charlie Standers

Morgan Freeman ... Craig
Tate Donovan ... Donald Towle
Henry Judd Baker ... Xavier

Claudia Christian ... Iris
J. David Krassner ... Tiller
Dakin Matthews ... Bob
Mary Catherine Martin ... Cheryl Ann
Patricia Quinn ... June (as Pat Quinn)
Terri Hanauer ... Admissions Counsellor

David A. Kimball ... Doctor
Veronica Redd ... Head Nurse - Detox
Sharie Doolittle ... Nurse
Sharon Medearis ... Nurse
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Runtime:
124 min
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Color (Technicolor)
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1.85 : 1 more
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Darryl: What is it with you guys and food?
Richard: Addicts are compulsive.
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Keaton Robbed At Oscar Time, 30 September 2000
Author: G-Man-25 from Iowa City, IA

Michael Keaton delivers such an intense, realistic and powerful performance in this movie, he should have AT LEAST been awarded an Academy Award nomination. This stands as his best dramatic performance ever, in a career filled with many fine dramatic and comedic roles. As Darryl Poynter, Keaton shows us a character that starts out as a total heel and a user, but is slowly transformed by his stay in a drug and alcohol rehab center (and his interactions with others there)into someone who genuinely begins to see the errors of his life and makes a concerted effort to change.

A fine ensemble cast adds to the drama, including Morgan Freeman, M. Emmet Walsh, Kathy Baker and Tate Donovan. The script by former National Lampoon writer Tod Carroll is filled with memorable characters and realistic situations and is further enhanced by the solid no-nonsense direction by Glen Gordon Caron.

An excellent and WAY under-appreciated movie that was thrown away by Warner Bros., "Clean And Sober is a riveting drama of rehabilitation and redemption that will stick with you long after you see it. True-life drama doesn't come much better than this. **** 4 stars

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