When a Man Loves a Woman (film)

• Meg Ryan: Alice Green
• Andy García: Michael Green
• Ellen Burstyn: Emily
• Tina Majorino: Jess Green
• Mae Whitman: Casey Green
• Lauren Tom Amy
• Philip Seymour Hoffman: Gary

When a Man Loves a Woman - An almost perfect love (Original Title: When a Man Loves a Woman) is an American melodrama from 1994 about the fate of a family who discovered the alcoholism of the mother and must learn to deal with it.

Action

The school counselor Alice, the pilot Michael Green and her two daughters Jess and Casey are a normal, happy family. Alice slides, however, gradually into alcoholism. They neglected their children and attempts to conceal their addiction. Only when she breaks down in the shower, she admits to herself to be an alcoholic. After a successful therapy, the family life is still heavily burdened. Michael and Alice increasingly have marriage problems, because it is changed after the therapy, which he can not cope.

Reviews

" A failed attempt to get at the reality. The representation of the problem alcoholism with its consequences and damage lack the necessary directness; it merely serves as a foil for a neat love and family drama. "

" This very tearful melodrama blessed is one of those films with which Meg Ryan would like to consist off the beaten path of their love comedies from time to time. A fairly serious confrontation with the mass problem alcoholism is these schmaltzy yet not become. At the beginning can still passable to, but in the second half pressing Written and directed only penetrating to the lacrimal gland. Also on the canvas is heavily ( and almost nonstop ) sobbed: Even Andy Garcia singles with treudoofem Bernardine view a torrent after the other. Thus, the few, well- observed scenes from the first third of their effect be deprived. Worth seeing the film, however, is for those who still have a virgin pack of paper handkerchiefs at home and do not know where to put it "