My Name Is Bill W
by Daniel Petrie
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Actor: Gary Sinise, George Coe, James Garner, James Woods, JoBeth WilliamsDirector: Daniel Petrie
Brand: Warner Brothers
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround; Spanish (Subtitled); French (Subtitled)
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, NTSC, Subtitled
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 99 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2006-06-06
Audience Rating: Unrated
Studio: Warner Home Video
DVD Reviews of My Name Is Bill W
DVD Review: Simple and Efficient
Summary: 5 Stars
My name is Bill W is a production coherent to its message: like the group theraphy of the Anonimous Alcoholics, it is simple and efficient. The system was the result of an open and fair partnership of two very determined guys: Bob Smith and Bill Wilson. The script of the movie together with art direction and actor's performance succeed to keep the focus on the main message: the only way to fight alcohol is to avoid drinking for the next 24 hours. For this reason it is a brilliant achievement:the big star is the solidarity, there are no celebrities, but common people with drinking problems that share their experience. DVD Review: You can learn a lot from these two
Summary: 5 Stars
This is a fantastic story whether you need to learn about drinking or not. A great story, Heroic and humble.DVD Review: Bad Acting, Limited Audience
Summary: 2 Stars
I bought this movie for my husband as a gift. Although he liked it, I thought it was just OK. The acting is cheesy and the story line is rather dull. It depicts how Alcoholics Anonymous was formed and by whom. I do believe the story line was close to accurate, however, the actors had no real personality and their characters seemed a little strained to fit the parts (with the exception of James Garner. If not for him, this movie would have been a total FLOP). In honesty, I laughed when Ebby staggered down the road. Who really likes to see a drunk stagger, let alone someone doing a rather bad inpression of one while trying to be serious? It was almost humiliating and uncomfortable.
This movie will always have a limited audience. It is geared for those already interested in Alcoholics Anonymous AND are impartial toward ANYTHING positively related to it. It will probably not win any new converts. If you really want to learn about AA, then attend a meeting or read the Big Book and other AA associated literature. Skip this.
DVD Review: Wonderfully Done
Summary: 5 Stars
Depicts the basic story behind the founding of Alcoholics Anonymous wonderfully. Several points in this video capture the desperation and utter hopelessness felt by one with the disease. The scene where Bill & Bob are talking on a street corner and see one drunk helping another drunk spells out the whole of the basis why AA works.DVD Review: Decent Film
Summary: 3 Stars
I'm not sure of the historical accuracy of this film, but it is a good film. It does a very good job of illustrating the addict's reality.
Description of My Name Is Bill W
Based on the true story of Bill W., James Woods - in an Emmy? award-winning performance - plays the successful stock broker whose life falls apart after the stock crash of the 1920's. As a result Bill W. and his loving wife Lois (Jo Beth Williams) must come to grips with his depression and downward spiraling alcoholism. In Bill's quest for recovery, he forms a support group with fellow alcoholic, Dr. Bob (James Garner), which eventually leads to the formation of Alcoholics Anonymous. In this inspiring portrayal, My Name is Bill W. movingly depicts the trials, trauma and triumph of people and loved ones coping and recovering from substance abuse. Director: Daniel Petrie. Starring: James Woods, Jo Beth Williams, James Garner and Gary Sinise.DVD Features:
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TV Special:A powerful, autobiographical story of an extraordinary friendship that developed into the foundation of Alcoholics Anonymous.
Here's another example of TV giving James Woods the chance to stretch out from the intense-psycho roles he seems restricted to in too many of his movies. In My Name Is Bill W. he plays Bill Wilson, the overreaching businessman from the Roaring '20s who went on to found Alcoholics Anonymous. Woods gets plenty of chances to stretch out here in Bill's headlong slide to the bottom, through the terrors of the Wall Street crash (which amplifies a two-fisted drinking problem) and into the loss of everything he holds dear. Yet Woods also is convincing as the man who understands just how insidious his disease is and learns to try to take everything one day at a time. He receives strong support from James Garner as the alcoholic physician who teams with Bill to make AA a viable proposition. --Marshall Fine
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