- Flight: a look at addiction, success, and redemption.
- A good person
- A beautiful boy
- A star is born
- 28 days
Flight: a look at addiction, success, and redemption.
Addiction , success, and redemption. The movie flight(2012), directed by Robert Zemeckis and starring Denzel Washington, tells the story of whip whitaker, a very skilled airline pilot who also struggles with addiction. The film shows us how someone can seem successful on the outside, yet still fight a painful and hidden battle inside. Through the…
A good person
Zach Braff’s film A good person(2023) is a powerful story about addiction, grief and the struggle for forgiveness. The film follows Allison, a young woman who life changes forever after she accidentally causes a car crash that kills her future sister in law and brother in law. Overwhelmed by anguish, physical pain, an guilt, Allison…
A beautiful boy
In beautiful boy, the character of Nic Sheff, is repeatedly confronted by th harsh reality of societal stigma around addiction, for example, when Nic’s father David, tries to bring him to a treatment center, the language used junkie, reflects the stigmatizing attitudes that Tony Hoffman describes in his talk on addiction stigma, namely, that people…
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