Duane Hopwood

Duane Hopwood is a 2005 film featured in the Sundance Film Festival starring David Schwimmer and Janeane Garofalo, with a supporting cast featuring Judah Friedlander, Dick Cavett, Susan Lynch, John Krasinski, Rachel Covey, and Mia Dillon. The movie was written and directed by Matt Mulhern and released by IFC Films in November 2005.

The film opens with a montage showing Duanes slide into alcoholism starting with a happy family meal moving onto a scene of him drinking casually at home then a scene of him drinking in a bar after work then coming home drunk, leaving the car with the door wide open and half on the curb while he is crashed out on the bedstill in his work clothes from his overnight shift as a floor manager or pit boss at Caesars Palace casino in Atlantic City, New Jersey. The montage culminates when Duane is pulled over after continually swerving across the road. Duane is drunk, but the policeman, a close friend, offers to take him home. Duane agrees but his friends leniency changes after Duane tells him his daughter is in the back seat.Duane is banned from driving and is forced to travel to the casino by a bicycle borrowed from his exwife Linda. Luckily, Duanes colleague, Anthony Judah Friedlander, sees him and offers him a ride. At the casino Duane is forced to intervene in an altercation between a blackjack table dealer and a customer. Duane initially asks him to leave, but after the man asks for a second chance, Duane gives him a few quarters and asks him to play a few slots then leave. The man does so and wins the jackpot prize. ........

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