Review: Clean and Sober
Michael Keaton is a high-living real-estate broker who crashes hard after a night of cocaine abuse leaves his date literally lying cold the next morning. Keaton is already in hot poop having ‘borrowed’ money from a company escrow account (most of which he lost in the stock market), and with the cops breathing down his neck after his coked-up one night stand, he flees to a drug rehab facility. Oh not to curb an addiction, it’s just that he figures he can hide out there, living in blissful anonymity free of consequence. He’s completely adamant that he doesn’t actually have a drug problem, not even going through detox hell convinces him of that. His unresponsive and downright obnoxious behaviour in group therapy sessions angers his counsellor Morgan Freeman. Freeman just wants Keaton to quit wasting everyone’s time and leave so he can focus on healing those who are ready to admit to and face their substance abuse problems. Keaton isn’t interested in that, but one of the fellow patients do