16 Years of Alcohol
16 Years of Alcohol is a 2003 drama film written and directed by Richard Jobson, based on his semiautobiographical 1987 novel. Kevin McKidd plays the central character Frankie, a violent alcoholic who is partially based on Jobson and his brother. The cover of the DVD describes the film as influenced by A Clockwork Orange and Trainspotting.
Frankie starts a relationship with Helen Laura Fraser, a young woman who studies art and works in a record store. When the differences between them became too obvious, Helen breaks up with Frankie, and he joins Alcoholics Anonymous or a similar program and a theatre group along with Mary Susan Lynch, a goodhearted alcoholic. This allows Frankie to exorcise some of his demons, and he loses his desire to fight. An incident in a pub leads Frankie to believe that Mary is cheating on him with the theatre groups director. This reignites doubts created by his parents a long time ago. Feeling deceived, Frankie rejects Mary without a valid reason. When hes preparing to drink a glass of scotch, he begins to muse how the past has destroyed his life up to this point and he decides to stay sober and call Mary to apologise. The events merge with the beginning of the film, and Frankies former comrades chase and beat him up. Whether Frankie dies or not is left open to the viewer.
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