Clean

This had the makings of a Lifetime network movie, but it isn't. The story of a woman married to a struggling rock musician. They are both heroin addicts. He dies from an overdose. She is acccused of possesion and loses custody of their child. She decides to go clean. A simple story, but one that goes against all cliches you expect from this kind of plot. She is not entirely sympathetic. Her in-laws are not monsters trying to make her life miserable. They are all simply human beings trying to do the best they can.

Maggie Cheung (In the Mood for Love, 2046) is excellent as the mother . She won the Best actress award at Cannes for this role. And Nick Nolte is just brilliant as her father in law, a man trying to raise the child but who realizes his age and mortality and figures he just has to trust his daughter in law.

This is a really good movie that never got a major release in the US and ended up being distributed by a small company. Soit's not likely that you will find it at Blockbuster. Maybe it will play on Cinemax one day. But your best bet is to find it at Borders.