Down to the Bone
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Actor: Caridad 'La Bruja' De La Luz, Clint Jordan, Hugh Dillon, Jasper Daniels, Vera FarmigaBrand: Hart Sharp Video
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language)
Format: Color, DVD, NTSC, Subtitled
Picture Format: 1.85:1
Running Time: 104 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2006-10-31
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Model: 670302
Studio: Arts Alliance Amer
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- With a bad marriage and kids to deal with, a woman takes extra precautions to keep her drug use secret. But with the cold weather on its way, hidden truths risk being revealed. Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: DRAMA Rating: NR Age: 829567030226 UPC: 829567030226 Manufacturer No: 670302
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DVD Review: The new face of addiction...
Summary: 5 Stars
Clearly snubbed by Oscar last year, Vera Farmiga delivers a brilliantly controlled performance that warranted an absent Best Actress nomination in this low-budget independent film about a young mother named Irene (Farmiga) who just can't seem to break her bad habits. Irene is struggling to keep her marriage to fellow junkie Steve (Clint Jordan) afloat while she battles to raise her two sons. Her drug habit of course makes all of this difficult and so she decides that checking herself into rehab may finally help her to quit for good.
Once administered she meets fellow junkies trying to break free, including Lucy (Caridad De La Luz) and Bob (Hugh Dillon), a supposed reformed junkie who takes a liking to Irene from day one. The two of them start a heated affair that ends badly when they both fall back into using and are eventually arrested for possession, an act that costs Irene her marriage.
What makes this film stand out from the rest of the drug and rehabilitation films we see year after year is the authenticity in the performance given by Vera, her complete understanding of what her character is facing at any given moment. From her remorse filled eyes as she sits across from her counselor to her complete uncertainty as she stares at her husband and her friends using right before her eyes, offering no support to someone they supposedly love. The environment she's living amidst is part of what breaks her down, herself being the only one determined to change, and it's all but impossible to make those changes on your own.
~I just want to mention that one reviewer stated her husband Steve was 'a nice guy' and that's a statement I wholeheartedly disagree with. The scene I mentioned above alone made me hate him. As he knows she's trying to clean up he blatantly does drugs in front of her and then offers her them. He does this on more than one occasion and that alone shows his lack of support for her, an act that is far from a 'nice' thing to do.~
The scenes where Irene is drugged and or recovering from the last nights drug binge are so painstakingly real that her acting becomes living. The scene where her son puts the snake around her neck is so surreal, so much more than acting. Another actor who must be mentioned and praised is Hugh Dillon who delivers a brilliant performance as Irene's bad influence, a man who at one time helped her change and then within the same breath took it all away. His own battles with himself are so accurately depicted that you forget to hate him for what he's doing to Irene.
There is so much baggage attached with this film, and it handles it so effortlessly that it quickly becomes one of the best films to tackle the subject of addiction and redemption I've ever seen. With a brilliant script and excellent acting (of course) this film is easily one of my favorite films of 2005. It slipped under the radar, but I promise you that after you watch this film it won't easily be forgotten, and Vera's performance alone is one for the textbooks.
Description of Down to the Bone
Irene is a working class mother living in upstate new york. She struggles to keep her marriage together & raise two sons while keeping her cocaine addiction a secret. Studio: Arts Alliance America Release Date: 08/14/2007 Starring: Vera Farmiga Run time: 104 minutesBestsellers in DVD
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