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IF THIS ONE STAYED WITH YOU
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SIMILAR PICKS / A PERSONAL CONNECTION
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Why this pick
Like Clean and Sober, it treats recovery as an uneasy, ongoing reckoning rather than a tidy cure, with a volatile protagonist forced to confront the damage addiction has done to intimate relationships.
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Why this pick
Its close, unsentimental portrait of a functioning addict shares Clean and Sober’s interest in denial, compromised self-image, and the small daily choices that make change feel painfully difficult.
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Why this pick
A tense, character-first addiction drama that similarly follows a superficially capable man through escalating self-deception, desperation, and the frightening practical consequences of substance dependence.
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Why this pick
It shares the earlier film’s direct, emotionally bruising approach to addiction and recovery, grounding its tragedy in ordinary relationships rather than sensationalism.
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Why this pick
For the raw, adult intensity and damaged self-destructive lead of Clean and Sober, this is an even bleaker, intimate character study with an unvarnished emotional style.
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01 / THE STORY
Daryl Poynter is a successful but self-destructive Philadelphia real estate salesman who is Drug addiction to cocaine. He embezzlement $92,000 of his company's money from an escrow account and then loses $52,000 to his addiction and the stock market. Waking up one morning next to a girl who suffered a heart attack from a cocaine overdose, he tries to cover up the drug use, but the police make it clear that they know what happened. There is also the matter of the company's money. Daryl goes to the airport to try to flee the country but his credit card is declined and he has no cash. His colleague Martin also refuses to put him up for a couple of weeks. Daryl then learns of a drug rehabilitation on the radio which lasts about a month and which guarantees anonymity. He checks in, figuring he can hide out there. While in rehab he meets Craig, a tough but supportive drug rehabilitation counselor. With great difficulty, Craig helps Daryl to realize he is an addict and that his life is complete chaos. He says to him, "The best way to break old habits is to make new ones."
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
Craig
Donald Towle
Tiller
Bob
Cheryl Ann
June
Admissions Counsellor
Doctor
