Most movies about alcoholics focus on the bottoming out, that moment when the addict reaches the jumping-off point and manages to either find the gift of desperation that leads them into recovery, or literally jumps off the deep end and winds up institutionalized or dead.

Some of the best-known films in this genre include Sandra Bullock in 28 Days, Denzel Washington in Flight, Nicolas Cage in Leaving Las Vegas and Bradley Cooper in A Star is Born.

The what it was like and what happened gets covered a lot.