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*''Film/BigBrother2018'': Chris and Bruce's dad, after his wife left. [[spoiler: Henry Chan has the school take a field trip to an alcohol rehab center where they interview the addicts, and their dad sees Chris and Bruce amongst the students. He confesses his story, trying to hold back his own tears since his owns sons are present, and he doesn't want the school to know. By the end of it, he's sworn off drinking for good.]]
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* ''Film/AYearAndChange'': Owen, although an alcohol induced injury during a party is part of the motivating factor for him to get his life together and kick the habit.
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* Joey Smith in ''Film/{{Hummingbird}}''. He manages to clean himself up when he takes over Damon's apartment, but falls OffTheWagon after [[spoiler:he kills Max Forrester]]. He later explains to Cristina that he drinks because when he is sober he is too good at violence and it comes too him too easily. Drinking is his way to try to take the edge off the killing machine the army turned him into.
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* ''Film/UpTheFront'' has the Great Vincento, who is plastered and clearly slurring his words throughout his entire stage performance, eventually passing out mid-show.
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* In ''Film/{{Sunset}}'', Michael Alperin is a lush who beats up women when he is drunk.

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* In ''Film/{{Sunset}}'', ''Film/{{Sunset|1988}}'', Michael Alperin is a lush who beats up women when he is drunk.
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* ''Film/{{Kisapmata}}'': [[FatBastard Dadong]] is constantly drinking and often encourages his son-in-law Noel to drink too.
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* ''Film/NoKidding'':
** Cook is frequently drunk, much to Matron's displeasure:
--->'''Cook''': ''What'' did you call me?
--->'''Matron''': "''Drunk''", I said, and "''drunk''", I repeat.
** Tandy is too, to a lesser degree, sharing drinks with Cook:
--->'''Mrs. Spicer''': Domestic personnel?
--->'''David''': Mr. Tandy, who I've no doubt you know.
--->'''Mrs. Spicer''': ''Ah'', yes. An inebriate.

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* Chippie from ''Film/DoctorAtSea'' takes to the booze to fight off his sadness over leaving Wapping.

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** Wildewinde from ''Film/DoctorInLove''. Dr. Cardew mentions that he gets plastered from time to time, but he does so quietly and on his days off.
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* Chippie from ''Film/DoctorAtSea'' takes to the booze to fight off his sadness over leaving Wapping.
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* In ''Film/LeVisiteurDuFutur'' Gilbert Alibert drinks too much, and his daughter often calls him out on that. This is a time-travelling story, and he is revealed to have died from this in one of the timelines.
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* Sergeant Major Kirby in ''Film/TheHorseSoldiers''. He arrives at Marlowe's camp drunk (having been dragged off a train as a last minute replacement for the hospitalized Sgt. Maj. Mitch Mitchell) and takes every opportunity on the mission to get drunk, including posing as official taster to the senior officers.
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* ''Film/BackToTheFuture'': Marty's mom, Lorraine, is depicted in pre-time travel 1985 as a prematurely aged (and HollywoodPudgy) alcoholic, the booze implied to be a coping tactic for her unhappiness in being married to her wimpy, cowardly husband George. When Marty goes back in time to 1955, he is shocked to find that his mom's alcoholic tendencies were taking root even in her high school days, when she pulls out and takes a swig from a bottle of booze she swiped from her mom's liquor cabinet. He gives his mom a stern warning about drinking, telling her she'll regret it later in life, and thankfully, his warning sticks, as upon his return to 1985, his mom is still strikingly thin and beautiful, the effects of her years of alcohol abuse nowhere apparent.

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* ''Film/BackToTheFuture'': ''Film/BackToTheFuture1'': Marty's mom, Lorraine, is depicted in pre-time travel 1985 as a prematurely aged (and HollywoodPudgy) alcoholic, the booze implied to be a coping tactic for her unhappiness in being married to her wimpy, cowardly husband George. When Marty goes back in time to 1955, he is shocked to find that his mom's alcoholic tendencies were taking root even in her high school days, when she pulls out and takes a swig from a bottle of booze she swiped from her mom's liquor cabinet. He gives his mom a stern warning about drinking, telling her she'll regret it later in life, and thankfully, his warning sticks, as upon his return to 1985, his mom is still strikingly thin and beautiful, the effects of her years of alcohol abuse nowhere apparent.
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* Mobley in ''Film/TheyLiveByNight''. When he sends him to buy a car and pick up Mattie, his brother Chicamaw's one repeated instruction to him is to stay sober. When he gets back, he is drunk and crashes the car into an oil barrel. It may run is the family as when he Chicamaw turns up at Bowie and Keechie's cabin, he is desperate for a drink and reluctantly accepts candy when he learns there isn't any booze. After the botched BankRobbery where T-Dub is killed, he is desperate for a drink and is later killed trying to rob a liquor store after Bowie throws him out the car.
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* In ''Film/Uranus1990'' Léopold is a strong alcoholic, his main fear when in jail is that he may not have access to alcohol. His being drunk causes much trouble.
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* At the start of ''Film/JanegotAGun'', Dan Frost is a a surly man living in a squalid house, who is constantly swigging from a whisky bottle he carries with him. He gradually sobers up over the course of the film.

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* At the start of ''Film/JanegotAGun'', ''Film/JaneGotAGun'', Dan Frost is a a surly man living in a squalid house, who is constantly swigging from a whisky bottle he carries with him. He gradually sobers up over the course of the film.
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* At the start of ''Film/JanegotAGun'', Dan Frost is a a surly man living in a squalid house, who is constantly swigging from a whisky bottle he carries with him. He gradually sobers up over the course of the film.

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