Barfly
Mickey Rourke plays Charles Bukowki's brawling, fucking fighting alter ego Henery Chinaski to perfection.
Leaving Las Vegas
Nicholas Cage doggedly drinks himself in the city of sin as hopeless, grief-striken Ben Sanderson.
The Lost Weekend
A classic: Ray Milland as a struggling writer who drinks himself into the lunatic asylum.
Factotum
Criminally under-rated, Matt Dillon is superb showing Chinaski (again) as an unglamorous writer.
My Favourite Year
Peter O'Toole as fast-quipping thespian lush, always ready with a G and T and a comeback.
Withnail and I
Drugged and drunk, Richard E Grant personifies the end of the Swinging Sixties in Robinson's classic.
Bad Santa
Billy Bob Thornton plays Willie the Santa as a year-round drunk who we're hoping gets redemption.
Tombstone
Has Val Kilmer ever been better than the consumptive, genteel Doc Holliday? We'd say 'no'.
Strange Brew
Another seldom-seen classic, as the Mackenzie brothers get jobs in a Canadian brewery. Genius.
Arthur
Dudley Moore as the happy drunk who is heir to a considerable fortune. Delightful.
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