Clean and Sober (1988) on Netflix
Daryl Poynter, a Philadelphia real estate salesman, has a cocaine and alcohol habit. After embezzling from his company, he hides from the police in a rehab program that guarantees anonymity.
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- IMDb6.7/107,917 votes
- Rotten Tomatoes57%
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Plot summary
Michael Keaton plays Daryl Poynter, a hot shot real estate agent who just happens to have a cocaine and drinking problem. One morning, he wakes up to find a dead woman in his bed (someone he had been partying with the night before) from a cocaine overdose. He also just happens to receive a phone call from his employers telling him a huge sum of money is missing from one of his accounts. Panicking, Daryl decides to check into a drug rehab to hide from the law, where he meets tough cookie Morgan Freeman. A recovering addict himself, he now works as a drug counselor, and knows all the tricks Daryl tries to pull. Soon Daryl discovers he just might be in the right place, after all.
Cast
- Mary Catherine Martinas Cheryl Ann
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Clean and Sober (1988)
Can contain spoilers, watch the movie first.
- Then-U.S. President Ronald Reagan viewed the film at Camp David on September 17, 1988, and wrote of it in his diary: "watched a long & not very entertaining movie about a man fighting drugs."
- Michael Keaton won the National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Actor in 1988 for a combination of this dramatic role and his comic turn in Beetlejuice the same year.
- Ron Howard, who had directed Michael Keaton in the comedies Night Shift and Gung Ho, came back to work with him again as the film's co-producer.
- This film was Keaton's first dramatic departure from comedies, the part that took him away from the comic roles he had played until then.
