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Which of these is your favorite from Matt Thorne's list of The Ten Best Screen Drunks?

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This list was taken from the wonderful book 10 Bad Dates with De Niro: A Book of Alternative Movie Lists

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Movies referenced in this poll:
Leaving Las Vegas
The Lost Weekend
Harvey
Days of Wine and Roses
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
Blind Date
Nil by Mouth
The Long Goodbye
Withnail & I

Faye Dunaway :(

Please, nobody vote for Barfly.  It's a terrible movie.

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I voted for Elwood (in Harvey).  Of the lot, he's gotta be the most lovable, and he sees a giant rabbit to boot.  We should all be so lucky when we're drunk! :-D

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I voted for Withnail because he's not only the greatest drunk from amongst the movies of these I've seen, he may actually be my favorite film character of all time!

I assure you I'm not drunk officer, I've only had a few ales

Yet I suspect that due to their iconic status as famous film drunks that Don Birnam in The Lost Weekend or Elwood P. Dowd in Harvey might beat them if I were to ever see them.

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I haven't seen any of these movies yet. =)

I guess I'll have to do that before I take this survey.

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Oh dear...five of these I haven't seen.  Three I saw so long ago that I couldn't say what I thought about them anymore because the memory's foggy (must be all the boozing...).  That leaves Liz Taylor's Martha and R. E. Grant's Withnail.  I voted for Grant because I enjoyed him more.  One of the funniest (and yet saddest) movies I've ever seen.  Grant was (is) brilliant.  Taylor's performance was so discomfiting (to my then young senses) that I may be scarred for life.  ;-)

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[I agree with PippinO6--Elwood Dowd in Harvey. Although it is now politically incorrect, Elwood is a lovable drunk. Further, in vino veritas--he often sees things more clearly tipsy than others do sober. And James Stewart's performance is remarkably good at tredding the fine line between whimsical and realistic.

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Tenenbaums:

Please, nobody vote for Barfly.  It's a terrible movie.

Does it seem weird to anyone else that he selected Faye Dunaway and not Mickey Rourke?

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I ended up voting for Sterling Hayden just because I like him so much in Dr. Strangelove. ("I don't avoid women, Mandrake . . . but I do deny them my essence.") Also because I've seen almost none of these movies, except Barfly and Leaving Las Vegas, and they both make me feel gross.

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That opening scene with Nicholas Cage's character shuffling down the liquor isle doing his spastic dance and laughing madly to himself while grabbing enough alcohol to kill a Frat house is one of those images that still resonates with me. I'm not a fan at all of Nicholas Cage and have gone so far as to bad mouth most of his filmography, but he really embodied that role and it will remain an iconic portrait of a drunkard.

However, my personal favorite from the list is without a doubt Elizabeth Taylor as Martha in Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? LOVE LOVE LOVE that movie and her in it. Just watching her spiral out of control over the course of the film is insane and yeah, just fantastic.

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My vote is still with Liz. Haunting...

Faye Dunaway. :( agreed.

I would replace that choice with Carol Burnett in Annie.

Keeps a female choice on the list and adds a new genre.

Not my favorite musical movie but a great performance.