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My name is Bill W. [videorecording] / Warner Bros. Television ; a Garner/Duchow production ; Producer & director, Daniel Petrie .

Contributor(s): Material type: FilmFilmPublisher number: 74114 | Warner Home VideoLanguage: English Original language: English Subtitle language: French, Spanish Publication details: Burbank, Calif. : Warner Home Video, c2006, 1989.Description: 1 videodisc (99 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 inISBN:
  • 141981916X
  • 9781419819162
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Contents:
Special features: Standard version -- The making of My Names is Bill W -- Language: English Dolby surround stereo -- Subtitles (movie only): English, French, Spanish.
Production credits:
  • Producer & director, Daniel Petrie ; writer, William G. Borchert ; executive producers, Peter K. Duchow & James Garner ; director of photography, Neil Roach ; editors, Paul Rubell & John Wright ; music, Laurence Rosenthal.
Awards:
  • James Woods won a Best Actor Emmy Award for his portrayal of William Griffith Wilson.
Cast: James Woods, Jobeth Williams, James Garner.Summary: World War I veteran William Wilson has everything: loving wife, good health, Wall Street career --and a "drinking problem." Penniless overnight when the stock market crashes, Bill quickly descends into a stormy sea of booze. Then he meets Bob Smith, an Ohio surgeon with the same "problem." Together they discover a way to stay sober --one day at a time, and their mutual triumph would soon become the world's.
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Item type Home library Collection Call number Materials specified Status Notes Date due Barcode Item holds
Adult DVD Adult DVD Dr. James Carlson Library DVD DRAMA My name Available INSERT HAS SOME WATER DAMAGE 03/15/13 33111006942698
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

My Name Is Bill W reunited the stars of the highly acclaimed 1986 TV movie The Promise: James Garner and James Woods. This time Woods has the bigger role as the real-life Bill Wilson, who comes marching home from World War One with a "little" liquor problem. He drinks steadily throughout the Prohibition Era, but Wilson's habit doesn't catch up with him until he is ruined by the 1929 stock market crash. This disaster propels Wilson into flat-out alcoholism, costing him his family and his reputation. While drying out in detox, Wilson strikes up a friendship with Bob Smith (Garner), an alcoholic doctor. Through Smith's influence, Bill Wilson organizes a small band of chronic drinkers into what will eventually become Alcoholics Anonymous. The formation of AA consumes the emotional final third of My Name Is Bill W, which like its Garner/Woods predecessor The Promise was originally presented as a Hallmark Hall of Fame TV special. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi

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Special features: The making of My name is Bill W.

Videodisc release of a 1989 production.

Special features: Standard version -- The making of My Names is Bill W -- Language: English Dolby surround stereo -- Subtitles (movie only): English, French, Spanish.

Producer & director, Daniel Petrie ; writer, William G. Borchert ; executive producers, Peter K. Duchow & James Garner ; director of photography, Neil Roach ; editors, Paul Rubell & John Wright ; music, Laurence Rosenthal.

James Woods, Jobeth Williams, James Garner.

World War I veteran William Wilson has everything: loving wife, good health, Wall Street career --and a "drinking problem." Penniless overnight when the stock market crashes, Bill quickly descends into a stormy sea of booze. Then he meets Bob Smith, an Ohio surgeon with the same "problem." Together they discover a way to stay sober --one day at a time, and their mutual triumph would soon become the world's.

Not rated.

DVD, region 1, full screen presentation; Dolby surround stereo.

English dialogue with optional French or Spanish subtitles; closed-captioned.

James Woods won a Best Actor Emmy Award for his portrayal of William Griffith Wilson.

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