When the comic star of 'Night Shift' and 'Beetlejuice' tackled his first dramatic role, the result was one of Michael Keaton's best performances ever, earning the National Society of Fim Critics Best Actor Award.
Keaton plays a real-estate broker Daryl Poynter, whose cocaine habit nearly consumes him until he enters a local detox program promising discretion and privacy. It also guarantees one thing more: the toughest battle of his life. Powerfully directed by Glenn Gordon Caron and boasting other great work from Kathy Baker, Morgan Freeman and M. Emmet Walsh, 'Clean And Sober' is a hard-hitting study of beating personal demons: one day at a time...