What Love Built A Secret Could Destroy...

Starring: Meg Ryan, Andy García, Lauren Tom, Ellen Burstyn, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Tina Majorino, Mae Whitman

DML Rating: ★★★★★★★★☆☆ - great

"Nothing happened, Michael. Nothing has to happen for me to have a bad day. That's the thrilling part of all this. It just comes and hits and runs me over like a g**damn freight train." – Alice

Why watch this? It's a superb, yet very painful, story about battling alcoholism.

Plot Summary: This is a agonizing story about an ordinary woman, Alice, who is an alcoholic. After a serious incident, she realizes that she has to leave her family and enter rehab. She finds help at rehab and moves back home. Her husband, Michael, has trouble re-adjusting to the new, sober Alice, who is now stronger, more vocal, AND still fighting her addiction. It's going to take her husband to confront how much he was also part of her problem.

Dad's Preview: This was not the film I thought it would be. It was completely mis-marketed as a romance. The performances by Ryan and Garcia are top-notch! It is one of the best films about addiction, recovery, and how hard it is for addicts to reinsert themselves back into their old life.

Touchstone Pictures, Avnet/Kerner Prod.; Buena Vista Pictures Dist.