FILMS FOR LIFE –
Feb. 26, 2026 – Critic Roger Ebert, himself a recovering alcoholic, gave When a Man Loves a Woman four stars and wrote that it was: “a wise and ambitious film about the way alcoholism affects the fabric of a marriage.”
“So many movies about the disease simplify it into a three-step process: Gradual onset, spectacular bottom, eventual recovery,” he wrote. “It isn’t that simple; most alcoholics never even give themselves a chance to recover. And recovery is a beginning, not an end.”
