Favorite alcoholic in a movie?

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It not one of these 10, post a reply with your favorite character.

[Oeditpus Rex]

1. Lemmon

A truly outstanding performance. :thumbsup:

As was Lee Remick's.

[SeattleGirl]

2. Agreed. Lemmon and Remick were incredible in that movie.

[Oeditpus Rex]

4. There were scenes where I could swear they actually were drunk

Especially when Remick's in the motel. God, that was fantastic.

[mykpart]

10. I grew up with an alcoholic father, and could have

sworn that Lemmon had channeled my dad when I saw that movie. Jack Lemmon was one of the greatest actors ever born.

[Oeditpus Rex]

11. It's pretty easy to play a drunk

It's not easy to play one well.

Lemmon did what I'd consider impossible: He played a drunk to perfection, and he played a drunk getting sober to perfection.

[SeattleGirl]

12. I felt the same way, mykpart.

My dad was an alcoholic, and while Days of Wine and Roses is an excellent movie, it brought me to tears sometimes while I watched it.

[mainegreen]

19. That's just what I was looking for in the poll. Right on!

:thumbsup:

[Bullwinkle925]

3. I must admit that my first thought was "Days of Wine and Roses"

followed closely by Burton & Taylor in "Who's Afraid of Virginia Wolfe".

Good poll.

[Robeson]

5. Rev. Dr. T. Lawrence Shannon, played by Richard Burton, in....

..."The Night of the Iguana". What a classic.

[ForrestGump]

6. Someone has to say it:

George W.Bush in Fahrenheit 911.

With 'favorite' meaning 'least favorite,' as exemplified by the "bad"-meaning-"good" school of colloquial irony.

[WCGreen]

7. No Mickey Rourke from Bar Fly....

Jack Lemmon... By far...

[Oeditpus Rex]

8. I'm gonna add one

Relatively small role, but he did it very well:

Dennis Hopper in "Hoosiers."

[CaliforniaPeggy]

9. He was dynamite!

And the movie was so damn good too....

[taterguy]

13. How could you forget this guy?

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21. Oh well, fat, drunk, and stupid is no way to go through life.

[itsmesgd]

14. here's an oldie

Lee Marvin from 1965's Cat Ballou. It's the story of a woman (Jane Fonda) who hires a famous gunfighter to avenge her father's murder. Lee Marvin's character is a washed up drunk gunfighter that can only function when gassed. It's a very funny western. Marvin's character is such a drunk that his horse even drinks and leans up against the wall and crosses his legs before passing out.

Kudos also to Bellushi from Animal House.

[terrya]

15. No Dudley Cook as "Arthur"?

[taterguy]

16. Don't you mean Dudley Moore?

Have you been drinking already today?

[terrya]

17. Ooops. Yes, I did.

No, I'm not. Just a brain slip.

[zanne]

25. He's definitely my favorite drunk in a movie. nt

[enigmatic]

18. Mickey Rourke as Henry Chinaski in "Barfly"

Rorke was great; Bukowski approved, and that's all you can ask..

[sarge43]

20. Jimmy Steward's Elwood P. Dowd, Harvey

Although he has only one drink during the film, we are left with the impression Elwood spends most of his day nicely lubed.

[wildhorses]

22. Johnny Depp as Hunter S. Thompson in

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas...

i fell out in the floor i was laughing so hard :rofl:

[itsmesgd]

23. also, Bill Murray as the Good Doctor Thompson

from Where The Buffalo Roam.

[Trailrider1951]

24. Oops, you forgot Lee Marvin in "Cat Ballou"

didn't he win an Oscar for that performance? It was priceless!!!

[itsmesgd]

27. see post #14

that was the funniest western

[mcscajun]

29. He did indeed: Best Actor.

:)
He was HYSTERICAL!

[peekaloo]

26. Shakes the Clown!

*harumph*

[noonwitch]

28. Dudley Moore as Arthur (at least the first movie)

At least he was a happy drunk.

[azmouse]

32. He would get my vote too.

I just watched Arthur last week. Dudley Mooore was very good in that movie.

[NashVegas]

30. Billy Bob Thornton in Bad Santa

Rocked!

[NMDemDist2]

31. you forgot Arthur-Dudley Moore

he was the first one who leapt to mind for me as a "favorite drunk"