As a general call to people with personal health problems to seek professional help, this may have some value, but as a program which ostensibly deals with adult children of alcoholics it's much to vague to be of specific, practical use. Following a long skit in which children act out various parental and child roles (displaying the kinds of tensions and problems exacerbated by alcoholism in the home), host Ed Asner opens the narration by comparing a family to a mobile: each piece is dependent upon the other. After stating that children of alcoholics tend to be more susceptible to the disease of alcoholism, the program goes off on a number of tangents--which may have something to do with alcoholism, but the link is tenuous, at best. While one can understand skits which show the problem "life of the party" drinker, it is difficult to make sense of skits concerning workaholics and heroin addicts. Even more confusing is Asner's final summation of problems, which include: general addictions, overeating, compulsive cleanliness, sexual problems, and power obsessions. In short, viewers are given a catalog of contemporary ills in our society, that may or may not have the slightest thing to do with whether one's parent was an alcoholic. This program recently won an International Silver Screen Award at the U.S. Industrial Film and Video Festival. Nevertheless, we cannot recommend it. (Available from: Vital Video Productions, c/o Karol Fulfillment Service, 22 Riverview Dr., Wayne, NJ 07470-3190.)
Everything's Fine.: Adult Children Of Alcoholics
(1989) 17 m. $29.95. Vital Video Productions. Public performance rights included. Vol. 4, Issue 5
Everything's Fine.: Adult Children Of Alcoholics
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