A young drug-addled writer approaching the bottom of his descent submits to two months of agonizing detox at a treatment center in Minnesota.
James Frey
Leonard
Lilly
John
Joanne
Lincoln
Miles
Hank
Roy
Dr. Baker
Bob Frey Jr.
Thug
Matty
Dr. Stevens
Old White Man
Father David
Arctic Eyes
Bartender
Ticket Officer
Stewardess
As long as we remember that this is a work of fiction, then it isn't a bad little runner. Aaron Taylor-Johnson and an extremely dapper Billy Bob Thornton engender some interest in their characters and as such, you do find yourself starting to care for them. ATJ plays an out-of-control druggie with little, he thinks, to live for; is sent to a rehab centre and meets Lilly (Odessa Young). The film develops sensitively - if, at times, angrily - and does offer us a little considered insight into the worlds of the carers and the cared-for. Nothing you won't have seen (or, likely, read) before and it is maybe just a bit too long, but it does deserve a viewing.
August 30, 2019
James Frey
Leonard
Lilly
John
Joanne
Lincoln
Miles
Hank
Roy
Dr. Baker
Bob Frey Jr.
Thug
Matty
Dr. Stevens
Old White Man
Father David
Arctic Eyes
Bartender
Ticket Officer
Stewardess
As long as we remember that this is a work of fiction, then it isn't a bad little runner. Aaron Taylor-Johnson and an extremely dapper Billy Bob Thornton engender some interest in their characters and as such, you do find yourself starting to care for them. ATJ plays an out-of-control druggie with little, he thinks, to live for; is sent to a rehab centre and meets Lilly (Odessa Young). The film develops sensitively - if, at times, angrily - and does offer us a little considered insight into the worlds of the carers and the cared-for. Nothing you won't have seen (or, likely, read) before and it is maybe just a bit too long, but it does deserve a viewing.