This motion picture is about a family ripped away by alcoholism but trying their best to recover from it. Actress Meg Ryan plays the character Alice Green, a school counselor who has a very serious addiction to alcohol. Andy Garcia, her spouse is name Michael and he is an airline pilot. Alice is a sincere lighthearted and caring individual but when alcohol gets introduced to her, she becomes reckless and drunk in which causes her to neglect her children, nine-year old daughter Jess from a previous marriage and four-year-old Casey, who is from Michael.
Alice gets involved in an accident and this when she comes to the realization that she has “hit rock bottom” and goes to a clinic for detoxification in rehab. Alice makes her return home, she …show more content…
In many instances, an alcoholic’s family suffers the burden of emotional, physical, and psychological desertion. This motion picture convincingly epitomizes alcoholism and its negative effects on the family. Alice Green demonstrates the classic alcoholic’s stages, which are cause, effects, recognition, and rehabilitation. Alice sincerely represents the behaviors associated with the alcoholic dependent. In the film, we are unaware of the cause for Alice’s addiction to alcohol. As a viewer, we may make the assumptions to the reason(s) of Alice’s abuse to alcohol. It may be because her father had an addiction to alcohol, experimentation, stress induced or taking on the responsibility of raising the family on her own as Michael was frequently away with …show more content…
At one point in the movie, Alice sees Jess in the living room and she commands her to complete her homework. After this unfortunate event, Alice staggers upstairs to locate some medicine, walks into her closet, finds a liquor bottle and drinks the medicine with liquor. A physical altercation occurred when Alice smacked her daughter Jess, which caused her daughter to develop a slight form of evasion towards her mom. There are several times in the film that we see Alice act abusive to Jess and Casey in physical and emotional. An example is when Alice had to leave for the rehabilitation facility, Jess was somewhat emotionless towards her mom by evading eye contact with her mom, and then when Jess was on an outing to see Alice in the treatment facility, she was evading behind Michael for a brief time before being swayed by him that her mother is fine, sober and sane. Jess has not once felt abandoned by Alice. Children of alcoholics are always in anxiety of being deserted and sense an absence of love and embarrassment. Jess usually only feels deserted after Alice leaves. The most apparent example would be her effort to act out the role of mom by cooking breakfast for Kasey. Luckily, Jess was not harshly traumatized by the incident her mother being an alcoholic but rather she comprehended that her mother is hurt, and that Alice is a damaged mother. Of a young age, Jess is
Alice gets involved in an accident and this when she comes to the realization that she has “hit rock bottom” and goes to a clinic for detoxification in rehab. Alice makes her return home, she …show more content…
In many instances, an alcoholic’s family suffers the burden of emotional, physical, and psychological desertion. This motion picture convincingly epitomizes alcoholism and its negative effects on the family. Alice Green demonstrates the classic alcoholic’s stages, which are cause, effects, recognition, and rehabilitation. Alice sincerely represents the behaviors associated with the alcoholic dependent. In the film, we are unaware of the cause for Alice’s addiction to alcohol. As a viewer, we may make the assumptions to the reason(s) of Alice’s abuse to alcohol. It may be because her father had an addiction to alcohol, experimentation, stress induced or taking on the responsibility of raising the family on her own as Michael was frequently away with …show more content…
At one point in the movie, Alice sees Jess in the living room and she commands her to complete her homework. After this unfortunate event, Alice staggers upstairs to locate some medicine, walks into her closet, finds a liquor bottle and drinks the medicine with liquor. A physical altercation occurred when Alice smacked her daughter Jess, which caused her daughter to develop a slight form of evasion towards her mom. There are several times in the film that we see Alice act abusive to Jess and Casey in physical and emotional. An example is when Alice had to leave for the rehabilitation facility, Jess was somewhat emotionless towards her mom by evading eye contact with her mom, and then when Jess was on an outing to see Alice in the treatment facility, she was evading behind Michael for a brief time before being swayed by him that her mother is fine, sober and sane. Jess has not once felt abandoned by Alice. Children of alcoholics are always in anxiety of being deserted and sense an absence of love and embarrassment. Jess usually only feels deserted after Alice leaves. The most apparent example would be her effort to act out the role of mom by cooking breakfast for Kasey. Luckily, Jess was not harshly traumatized by the incident her mother being an alcoholic but rather she comprehended that her mother is hurt, and that Alice is a damaged mother. Of a young age, Jess is