Four Good Days (2021)
Directed by Rodrigo García
A mother helps her daughter work through four crucial days of recovery from substance abuse.
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Here she plays a mother to a heroin addict (a game Mila Kunis) in a cold turkey, tough love saga like “Ben is Back” (2018) or “Beautiful Boy” (2018).
In 2018, two were released, “Beautiful Boy” and “Ben Is Back,” and yet another premiered Sunday at the Sundance Film Festival.
Like 2018’s Beautiful Boy , another bleary saga of addiction, Garcia’s movie is interested in Molly’s physical degradation and her cyclical choices just as much as it wants to expose Deb’s psychological prison and parental regrets.
There have been memorable exceptions over the years, like Requiem for a Dream , which made its immersive dive into drug culture a harrowingly hallucinatory horror movie; Drugstore Cowboy , both candid and contemplative in its depiction of transient junkies; Rachel Getting Married , which found an exquisite balance of Chekhovian comedy and drama in the fallout from the sister of the bride’s addiction issues; or the Safdie brothers’ Heaven Knows What , a grittily textured odyssey of druggy New York street life that paid homage to the 1971 classic, The Panic in Needle Park .