I'm Dancing As Fast As I Can (1982)

Jill Clayburgh, Nicol Williamson, Dianne Wiest, Joe Pesci, Geraldine Page ... see more  , James Sutorius , Ellen Greene , Cordis Heard , Richard Masur , Daniel Stern , Dan Hedaya , Kathleen Widdoes , John Lithgow , Lara Cody , Kasey Connors , Jeffrey DeMunn , Anne De Salvo , Derwin Jordan , Robert DoQui , Roger Etienne , Deborah Foreman , Malcolm Groome , Richard Hamilton , Thomas Hill , Gloria Irizarry , Toni Kalem , Margaret Ladd , Joseph Maher , DeVera Marcus , Gregory Osborne , CCH Pounder , John Shearin , Ebbe Roe Smith , Charlie Stavola , Ann Weldon , Andrew Winner , Eleanor Zee , Wendy Cutler , Eddy Donno , Andy Goldberg , Glenn Wilder , Lawrence Sellars , Paul Willson

Jill Clayburgh plays, as one character calls her, "a pill-popping dingbat" in this film adaptation of television producer Barbara Gordon's autobiographical account of her addiction to prescription dru... read more gs. Clayburgh plays Gordon in the film as a successful television documentary filmmaker whose mounting pressures force her to pop a Valium or two for nerves. She then ingests a few more pills after an argument with boyfriend Derek Bauer (Nicol Williamson). And thus begins her slow and steady compulsion to keep taking more and more Valium. Finally realizing her addiction, Gordon makes a disastrous attempt to go cold turkey but fails miserably, finally having to undergo a painful rehabilitation in an institution. ~ Paul Brenner, Rovi

DVD Release Date: June 21, 2005

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