Vita e musica della musicista londinese Amy Winehouse, che ha iniziato come cantante jazz per poi crescere fino a diventare una superstar della discografia mondiale, vincitrice di un Grammy. La sua vita si è interrotta nel 2011 a soli 27 anni, dopo una lunga battaglia con l'alcolismo e la tossicodipendenza.
Basato sul romanzo bestseller di Joyce Carol Oates, Blonde è un ritratto romanzato e audace di una delle icone più durature di Hollywood, Marilyn Monroe.
Quando Pete ed Ellie decidono di metter su famiglia scelgono l'adozione. Speravano di accogliere un bambino piccolo, ma si ritrovano per le mani tre fratelli, tra cui una ragazzina di 15 anni ribelle, e improvvisamente in una notte passano dall'avere zero bambini ad averne tre.
In un mattino d’autunno il South Jet 227 parte da Orlando, al comando di Whip Whitaker, per un volo di routine. L’aereo però s’imbatte presto in una turbolenza ed entra in una forte tempesta, poi una serie d’inesplicabili guasti lo fanno precipitare a spirale verso il basso. Whip decide che l’unica possibilità che ha di salvare il volo è compiere una difficile manovra. In una manciata di minuti, individua uno spazio di terra adiacente una chiesa dove tentare l’atterraggio. L’impatto è sconvolgente, ma Whip, con un colpo incredibile e ingegnoso, riesce ad atterrare in modo abbastanza sicuro da salvare tutte meno sei delle 102 anime a bordo. Per il suo miracoloso atterraggio, i media acclamano Whip come un eroe. Ma la causa del disastro non è completamente chiara ai suoi superiori, anche se Whip è sicuro che se non ci fosse stato lui l’aereo si sarebbe schiantato e tutti sarebbero morti.
A Kate e Charlie piace divertirsi. Il loro matrimonio vive di una passione comune per la musica, le risate…e le sbronze. Quando Kate perde il controllo ad una festa che sfocia in un comportamento che compromette il suo lavoro come insegnante di scuola elementare, decide di fare qualcosa per cambiare la situazione. Ma il cambiamento non è esattamente un gioco da ragazzi. Sobrietà significa che lei dovrà affrontare le bugie che ha raccontato sul posto di lavoro, il suo rapporto problematico con la madre e la natura del suo legame con Charlie.
Rosetta, che non è ancora maggiorenne, si deve far carico della madre alcolizzata con cui vive in una roulotte in un camping ai margini di un bosco. Licenziata da una fabbrica dove era stata assunta in prova va in città per vendere alcuni abiti usati e conosce Riquet che lavora in un chiosco dove si vendono cialde. Rosetta viene assunta e al contempo ha anche finalmente un amico che le rimane accanto anche quando, qualche giorno dopo, viene nuovamente licenziata. La ragazza, dopo l'ennesimo scontro con la madre, decide di abbandonare la roulotte e riceve ospitalità da Riquet. Il bisogno di trovare un lavoro continua però a tormentarla.
An ex-convict must undertake a perilous, violent journey in order to meet his daughter after ten years of imprisonment.
Set in 1969, a twelve-year-old grows up in Key West with his mother, who is paying the bills by stripping at the local topless bar. The boy finds out about her activities and tries to convince her to stop, to no avail. A local restaurant owner hires him to collect fish from a boat out in the bay, and the boy discovers that the restaurant owner is using the fish to bring drugs in to shore. He steals one load and goes about selling it so his mother can afford to quit her job.
A soap opera parody along the lines of Young Doctors in Love (1982).
Hotshot real estate salesman Daryl has a bad cocaine habit. After embezzling his company's money, he wakes up next to a girl who overdosed. To hide from the police, he checks into a rehabilitation program guaranteeing anonymity. Under the mentorship of counselor Craig, Daryl accepts that he has a substance abuse problem. As he falls in love with fellow patient Charlie, Daryl begins committing to a newly sober life.
When a substance abuse counsellor gets arrested for a DUI and returns to her hometown of Niagara Falls, she learns that her estranged father is dying of cancer and wants her to form a bond with her teenage half-sister that she's never met.
Produced in 1967, this black and white film is an inmate's view of Daytop, a drug treatment centre on Staten Island, New York, where addicts learn to get along without drugs. Uncompromising, often brutal group therapy sessions are designed to shake loose the excuses a victim makes for himself. The people and situations shown are authentic; only one actor was employed. The results obtained at Daytop are regarded by some psychiatrists as a breakthrough.
Na'ama is seventeen. She lives in a sleepy suburbia. She is bored. With detached parents and a rebellious older sister, her life at home is a mess. It all changes when a new girl appears at school. She's introduced to a world of drugs, lesbians and sex. She's thrilled. Her life, at last, becomes exciting. Is it going to last? "Barash" is a coming of age story, planted in the heart of Israeli society, about a young woman who struggles to find her self-identity in an environment that has different ideas about sex, drugs and love.
Follows a year in the life of an alternative high school that has radically changed its approach to disciplining its students, becoming a promising model for how to break the cycles of poverty, violence and disease that affect families.
About the everyday life of lumberjacks who seek solace in vodka, which becomes the cause of many troubles and misfortunes. But the old lumberjacks have their own philosophy and their own outlook on life....
When fourteen-year-old Naomi reunites with her estranged cousin, innocent curiosities lead to a night of drinking, debauchery, and betrayal in the shadows of a small Ohio factory town.
Ralph Macchio, once a former teen idol, once on top the world in the 80s. Now he is a family man with a loving wife and the nicest man in Hollywood... that is the problem. Because he never once participated in a scandal he is not as popular as he used to be. Sick and tired of it, his wife stages an intervention with his former co stars and manager. They explain to him that in order to further his career he has to shed the nice guy routine and become the most hated man in America. With some inspiration by other scandalous celebrities such as Colin Farrell and Christian Bale; Macchio decides to partake in every scandal known to modern America. Will he succeed in his career or would he go too far?
On New Year's Day, two boys wind up in the apartment of Katerina, a teacher from their school, along with her friends, Stepan and David. As the older trio bickers, drinks and flirts, the boys gain eye-opening insight into the adult world.
A newspaper clip of a 30-year-old movie makes our middle-aged protagonist in the middle of his peak years to look for his best childhood friend. The journey leads him back to his teenage years in the 1990s depression, over-generational substance abuse and past encounters. This partly essayistic, autobiographical documentary tells the story of friendship and generational experiences while also pondering on the causes and effects of destinies in the judgmental atmosphere of our society.
Follow filmmaker Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers as she creates an intimate portrait of her community and the impacts of the substance use and overdose epidemic. Witness the change brought by community members with substance-use disorder, first responders and medical professionals as they strive for harm reduction in the Kainai First Nation.