Clean and Sober is a 1988 dramatic film directed by Glenn Gordon Caron and starring Michael Keaton as a real estate agent's trouble with substance abuse. This film was a dramatic departure from the comedies Keaton had been known for previously. The cast also includes Kathy Baker, M. Emmet Walsh, Morgan Freeman and Tate Donovan.
Ron Howard, who previously directed Keaton in the comedies Night Shift (1982) and Gung Ho (1986), served as co-producer....
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Clean and Sober is a 1988 dramatic film directed by Glenn Gordon Caron and starring Michael Keaton as a real estate agent's trouble with substance abuse. This film was a dramatic departure from the comedies Keaton had been known for previously. The cast also includes Kathy Baker, M. Emmet Walsh, Morgan Freeman and Tate Donovan.
Ron Howard, who previously directed Keaton in the comedies Night Shift (1982) and Gung Ho (1986), served as co-producer.
The film's tagline is Thirty remarkable days in the life of an ordinary man.
Daryl Poynter is a successful, arrogant and self-destructive Philadelphia real estate salesman who is addicted to cocaine. He embezzles $92,000 of his company's money from an escrow account to feed his addiction, and then loses it all in the stock market.
Waking up one morning next to a dead girl who suffered a heart attack from too much cocaine, he begins to realize his life is out of control. In an attempt to evade police authorities and his debt to the company, he...
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