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My Name Is Bill W
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Product Description
Based on the true story of Bill W., James Woods - in an Emmy award-winning performance - plays the successful stock broker whose life falls apart after the stock crash of the 1920's. As a result Bill W. and his loving wife Lois (Jo Beth Williams) must come to grips with his depression and downward spiraling alcoholism. In Bill's quest for recovery, he forms a support group with fellow alcoholic, Dr. Bob (James Garner), which eventually leads to the formation of Alcoholics Anonymous. In this inspiring portrayal, My Name is Bill W. movingly depicts the trials, trauma and triumph of people and loved ones coping and recovering from substance abuse.
Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #2805 in DVD
- Brand: Warner Brothers
- Released on: 2006-06-06
- Rating: NR (Not Rated)
- Aspect ratio: 1.33:1
- Number of discs: 1
- Formats: Full Screen, Color, DVD, NTSC, Subtitled
- Original language: English
- Subtitled in: Spanish, French
- Dimensions: .25 pounds
- Running time: 100 minutes
Features
- DVD
- 4 X 3 FULL FRAME
- Amaray Case
- Dolby Surround Stereo - English
- TV Special: A powerful autobiographical story of an extraordinary friendship that developed into the foundation of Alcoholics Anonymous.
Editorial Reviews
Amazon.com
Here's another example of TV giving James Woods the chance to stretch out from the intense-psycho roles he seems restricted to in too many of his movies. In My Name Is Bill W. he plays Bill Wilson, the overreaching businessman from the Roaring '20s who went on to found Alcoholics Anonymous. Woods gets plenty of chances to stretch out here in Bill's headlong slide to the bottom, through the terrors of the Wall Street crash (which amplifies a two-fisted drinking problem) and into the loss of everything he holds dear. Yet Woods also is convincing as the man who understands just how insidious his disease is and learns to try to take everything one day at a time. He receives strong support from James Garner as the alcoholic physician who teams with Bill to make AA a viable proposition. --Marshall Fine
