My Name Is Bill W.
by Daniel Petrie
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Actor: Gary Sinise, George Coe, James Garner, James Woods, JoBeth WilliamsDirector: Daniel Petrie
Edition: VHS Tape
Audio: English (Original Language), Analog
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, HiFi Sound, NTSC
Running Time: 100 minutes
Release Date: 1997-09-02
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Publisher: Warner Home Video
Studio: Warner Home Video
VHS Movie Reviews of My Name Is Bill W.
Movie Review: My Name is Bill W
Summary: 5 Stars
This is a very moving story. If you or anyone you know has a problem with addictiion. It helps you to realy understand what AA is all about.Movie Review: Awsome !!!!
Summary: 5 Stars
As a recovering person of 21 years, the movie helped me get in touch with so many feelings. Mostly gratitude for what I have but also the feelings of hopelessness, shame, and despair. So very close to Bill's Story in the Big Book. I use it to show new people in recovery how it all started.
Movie Review: AA
Summary: 2 Stars
Some AA members consider this movie a valuable asset. I found it shallow. It was a pathetic Hollywood attempt to review the lives of those who began the search for an alternative to hospitalization and death for alcoholics. It was a nice try, but it didn't work, and the way it ended was like diving off a board into a dry pool.Movie Review: Not Only a Great Film, But a Story of an Important Spiritual Movement
Summary: 5 Stars
James Woods won the 1989 best-actor Emmy for his performance in this film about the founding of Alcoholics Anonymous. The film received six other nominations, as well. So, beyond its value as a fascinating look at the origins of one of the most important spiritual movements of the 20th Century -- it's simply good movie making!
But there's a lot more to learn in exploring the roots of Alcoholics Anonymous. Once thought of as isolated from the realm of religion -- scholars of religious movements now regard the founding of AA with its reliance on a "Higher Power" as a major milestone in the evolution of American spiritual movements. This is especially true in newer books like Phyllis Tickle's "Great Emergence, The: How Christianity Is Changing and Why (emersion: Emergent Village resources for communities of faith)" Tickle argues that "AA opened the floodgates to spirituality by removing the confines of organized religion."
Think about its influence for a moment. Here is a massive national network formed around essentially spiritual principles that cut across religious boundaries -- and even manages to include non-religious people who define "Higher Power" in other ways. The movement was founded and grew with great success -- not as a branch of some traditional religious group -- but as a new way of bringing people together and organizing their reflections.
The movie's a great discussion-starter for groups.
Movie Review: A classic
Summary: 5 Stars
This movie is one of the best representations of how Bill W. and Dr. Bob met, thus forming what is now Alcoholics Anonymous. The movie takes place around the 1930's and gives you a glimpse into the world of Bill Wilson, an alcoholic, and the struggles that him and his wife went through as his disease progressed. Not much could be done for an alcoholic in those days. Today, there are many 12-step programs and treatment centers that are able to offer hope to the suffering alcoholic or addict. This movie, though serious in subject matter, is a well-written, heartwarming approach to the history of the co-founders of AA. James Woods and James Garner do an amazing job acting as Bill W. and Dr. Bob. It's a classic.
Summary of My Name Is Bill W.
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 FineTrue Story Video
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