The Lost Weekend
1945 Best Picture

100 Words
This movie is nearly 80-years sober and as a sober someone myself, I can’t begin to describe its accuracy in portraying addiction. Ray Milland deserved the golden guy for his anti-hero, Don, a man whose drinking habits have cost him nearly everything, yet he continues to search for answers at the bottom of every bottle. It’s easy for the audience to see why Helen can’t quit her Don habit either and my heart nearly fell right out of my chest at the sight of her asleep on his front steps.

“How many are like me?” Don wonders.

I wonder too.