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Sep 19, 2014, 08:01 AM
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Hi there,
is there any type of movie or a documentary about ACoAs? Maybe someone remember one actor who played very good some of the characteristics of ACoAs? Maybe someone remember a movie with alcoholism in a family dynamic, and could recommend analytic review of other family members in that movie? Please, any suggestions would be great! |
 Anonymous37780, Travelinglady
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Sep 20, 2014, 07:34 AM
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Cant think of anything. Lots of Alcoholics are portrayed but I can 't seem to remember one on family dynamics. There must be a documentary out there.
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Sep 20, 2014, 07:38 AM
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Film | True Vision
"The Watershed" a documentary by Mary Trunk - The Story Stuff on YouTube Welcome to Adult Children of Alcoholics - World Service Organization, Inc.
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The "paradox" is only a conflict between reality and your feeling of what reality "ought to be." -- Richard Feynman Major Depressive Disorder Anxiety Disorder with some paranoid delusions thrown in for fun. Recovering Alcoholic and Addict Possibly on low end of bi polar spectrum...trying to decide. Male, 50 Fetzima 80mg Lamictal 100mg Remeron 30mg for sleep Klonopin .5mg twice a day, cutting this back |
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Nov 21, 2014, 05:12 PM
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Didn't "Prince of Tides" address this as well (albeit fictionally)?
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Nov 14, 2015, 03:01 PM
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The movie Runaway Bride's main character (Julia Roberts character) portrayed an adult child of an alcoholic in the film. I related to her character surprisingly well.
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| Miktis25
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Nov 26, 2015, 11:49 AM
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This movie came to my mind today: The Savages
is a 2007 American drama film written and directed by Tamara Jenkins. It stars Laura Linney and Philip Seymour Hoffman. Alexander Payne and Jenkins' husband Jim Taylor were two of the executive producers. The film premiered at the Sundance Film Festival to critical acclaim. After drifting apart emotionally over the years, two single siblings — Wendy (Linney) and Jon (Hoffman) — band together to care for their estranged, elderly father, Lenny (Philip Bosco), who is rapidly slipping into dementia. Wendy and Jon first travel to Sun City, Arizona to attend the funeral of their father's girlfriend of 20 years. When they arrive, they are told that their father signed a non-marriage agreement and will not have rights to any of her property. They then move him to a nursing home in Buffalo, where Jon is a theater professor working on a book about Bertolt Brecht. Wendy, who is an aspiring, but unsuccessful, playwright, moves from New York City to help establish their father in Buffalo. Neither of the siblings are close with Lenny. It is implied that he was a physically and emotionally abusive father when Jon and Wendy were growing up and they cut him out of their lives. They were also abandoned by their mother at a young age. Their dysfunctional family life appears to have left Wendy and Jon emotionally crippled and unable to sustain a relationship.... This one hit very very close to home for me. It was extremely emotional for me to watch it..but the end in, my opinion, was realistic. I watched a 2nd time with my boyfriend at the time... was trying to give him a view into what my life feels like sometimes. Also knowing what eventually happened to Philip Seymour Hoffman in real life makes it especially heart wrenching.
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Dec 05, 2015, 10:52 AM
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Thanks a lot Brainhi for this suggestion. I've found that movie at YouTube, almost whole lenght. Looking forward to watch it. Its sad what has happened to him. For me, he always knew how to present the role realistically. Thanks
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| brainhi
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Dec 06, 2015, 10:43 AM
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Saw one movie a while back, it is somewhat old. It was titled IRON WEED. It has Jack Nicholas and Meryl Strept in it. It is excellent and i think you might find that a good movie to watch. Definetly has a lot of family dynamics in it. tc
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