Brilliant

Rating: 10/10 (10 September 2010)

Drug addiction: no frills, no pretty people, no accents to make it seem somehow exotic to us Americans, just unremitting, unvarnished reality, and three hapless souls sinking to oblivion. That's all, folks! And to say it's hard to watch is an understatement. It's like being beaten with a rubber hose on the inside.
There are thousands of reviews, so I'll skip the particulars. The cast is superb. How Ellen Bursten did not walk away with an Oscar, I don't know. Maybe it was just too little of a film. What a completely fearless, harrowing performance.
You'll never look at a refrigerator the same way again.