Clean and Sober, Sweet Bird of Youth, Reflections in a Golden Eye: Jim Hemphill's Home Video Recommendations

Michael Keaton was primarily known for comedies when he gave one of the riskiest dramatic performances of the 1980s as a fast-talking addict in Glenn Gordon Caron's Clean and Sober (1988); over 30 years later it remains a high point in the actor's distinguished career. Keaton plays Daryl Poynter, a coke-snorting real estate salesman who needs to lay low after he embezzles tens of thousands of dollars and wakes up next to a woman who has suffered a heart attack after doing drugs with him the nigh...