My Name Is Bill W |  | Director: Daniel Petrie
Actors: James Woods, JoBeth Williams, James Garner, Gary Sinise, George Coe
Studio: Warner Home Video
Category: DVD
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Rating:  92 reviews
Sales Rank: 4,578
Format: Full Screen, Color, DVD, Subtitled, NTSC
Languages: Spanish (Subtitled), French (Subtitled), English (Original Language)
Rating: Unrated
Region: 1
Discs: 1
Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Running Time: 100 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 5.4 x 0.6
MPN: 012569741140
UPC: 012569741140
EAN: 0012569741140
ASIN: B000ERVK4Y
Theatrical Release Date: April 30, 1989
Release Date: June 6, 2006
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Product Description
Story of successful stock broker whose life falls apart after abusing alcohol eventually leading him to form Alcoholics Anonymous with a fellow alcoho
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Here's another example of TV giving James Woods the chance to stretch out from the intense-psycho roles he seems restricted to in too many of his movies. In My Name Is Bill W. he plays Bill Wilson, the overreaching businessman from the Roaring '20s who went on to found Alcoholics Anonymous. Woods gets plenty of chances to stretch out here in Bill's headlong slide to the bottom, through the terrors of the Wall Street crash (which amplifies a two-fisted drinking problem) and into the loss of everything he holds dear. Yet Woods also is convincing as the man who understands just how insidious his disease is and learns to try to take everything one day at a time. He receives strong support from James Garner as the alcoholic physician who teams with Bill to make AA a viable proposition. --Marshall Fine
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 review May 27, 2010
Frances Lee Carlson (Mayville, New York)
it's the story about the founding of aa. it was excellent when i first saw it on tv, the hallmark hall of fame, many years ago.
My Name is Bill W, DVD. May 24, 2010
Tom C. King (Perryville, Maryland United States)
Having watched numerous times on national broadcasts, I have meant to get this for some time, and as it turned out you snet 2 copies I apparently ordered unknowingly. Worked out fine, made a great gift. Excelent service and quaity product. Classic portrayal of two men and woman ( Lois Wilson) who have effected millions of lives thru their own selflessness and and committmentment to fellow sufferers.
Reccommend to any one, everyone. Should be incorporated in any serious medical, addiction, social studies, psychcology, human engineering , course of studies. How one Man can makea difference.
I hope the Lois Wilson story is as true to history as this was
Very moving... March 16, 2010
Kelly (Novato, CA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I thought the movie was very moving. I am a new OA member (just under a year in program) and I felt it would be important for me to not only read and understand the Big Book, but also to see the movie and understand more about Bill W.'s story. I love James Woods and James Garner, so it was a real pleasure to watch. I highly recommend it!
Great AA history! March 7, 2010
Keep coming back (Los Angeles, CA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I've been wanting to purchase this movie for a long time. It's great AA history & is very well made with some very good performances from the actors. I recommend it for all those in recovery or the families & friends.
Consistantly watched, and consistantly appreciated. February 14, 2010
Jane Derry (Kelowna, British Columbia, Canada)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
My Name is Bill W. is in our film library at A Home Away Retreat. It is required watching for our guests as they begin to learn about the disease of alcoholism, and to learn about the solution to the disease. Like personal favorite family stories, or beloved stories from Scripture, the Bill W. story never seems to become stale. Although the co-founders of AA worked very hard to stay humble and anonymous, inevitably for people who have recovered from a seemingly hopeless state of mind and body, the story of AA's birth and early days has an iconic reverence to it. We love to tell it, read it and watch it again and again.
I have the pleasure of hearing the Bill W. movie reviewed very regularly by our guests, and it is always well-received and enthusiastically discussed. As our guests struggle with the damage of alcoholism in themselves, watching James Wood and James Garner portray with empathy and compassion the co-founders, they begin to accept themselves a little bit more. My favorite scene in the film is when Bill W. is coming off a bender, and he standing by his living room window, staring out at it. His wife, and co-founder of Alanon, Lois asks Bill, "Why do you do it?". Bill looks at her with such dismay and resignation and answers truthfully, "I don't know". The point just drives home, that there was no recovery program for Bill W. or Dr Bob to phone up and ask for the nearest meeting. They were doomed to an alcoholic death - until their divine intervention.
A great film, well acted, sensitive, and true to the story of the Bill Wilson as I understand it.
Jane Derry
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