![]() ![]() On visiting day, when a fairly fearsome-looking fellow patient offers to play with their daughter, she reassures her husband: "He's not a child molester. She makes close friendships with other recovering alcoholics. Not good-hearted, accepting Michael, who is, in recovery jargon, a born enabler.Īt the treatment facility, Alice begins learning to live with the disease. But the drinking she couldn't hide (the episode with the eggs, the scene in Mexico, the night she locks herself out of the house) would be unacceptable to many spouses. Sure, she hid a lot of her drinking (a practiced alcoholic can easily drink three or four times more booze than others might be aware of). To some degree, he is giving himself points for being a nice guy. Early in the film we have seen how much in love he is, how attentive, how accepting. It's after Alice sobers up that Michael's unhappiness begins. Her husband is warm and understanding, arranging for her to check into a treatment facility. It's a relief for her to admit her addiction. ![]() Another day, drunk, she slaps her older daughter and then passes out, landing on the bathroom floor in a crash of glass, water and blood. One day after school she goes out drinking with a friend, and forgets to come home until after midnight. The movie opens as she begins a steep dive toward her bottom. "It starts at 4 in the morning," she finally confesses, telling him some of her secrets ("You know how we'll be in the car and then I have to run back in the house because I forgot something?").
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