6.3
A young drug-addled writer approaching the bottom of his descent submits to two months of agonizing detox at a treatment center in Minnesota.
Aaron Taylor-Johnson
James Frey
Billy Bob Thornton
Leonard
Odessa Young
Lilly
Giovanni Ribisi
John
Juliette Lewis
Joanne
Dash Mihok
Lincoln
Charles Parnell
Miles
Ryan Hurst
Hank
David Dastmalchian
Roy
Tom Amandes
Dr. Baker
Charlie Hunnam
Bob Frey Jr.
Andy Mackenzie
Thug
Eugene Byrd
Matty
Andy Buckley
Dr. Stevens
Keith Barber
Old White Man
Albert Malafronte
Father David
Carson Meyer
Arctic Eyes
Frederick Lawrence
Bartender
Deep Rai
Ticket Officer
Ingrid Rogers
Stewardess
Bill Blair
Piano Player
Logan Devore
Young James Frey
Gaia Passaler
Director, Screenplay
Sam Taylor-Johnson
Novel
James Frey
Screenplay
Aaron Taylor-Johnson
March 28, 2022
7
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.