My Name Is Bill W. (1989)
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2025-09 to 2026-08
Directors
Daniel Petrie
Cast
George Coe, James Garner, Robert Harper, Joe Inscoe
The story
The movie details the true story of stockbroker William Griffith Wilson, a World War I veteran whose alcoholism ("drinking problem") becomes a serious addiction and causes him to lose his fortune in the stock market collapse of 1929. Wilson's career and his domestic life are in tatters when he meets Robert Holbrook Smith, also struggling with a drinking problem. The duo founded a support group that became the nucleus for the society Alcoholics Anonymous.
Genres
Drama, biographical film, drama film
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