I love to accidentally find an important writer by seeing a film. That happened with "Requiem for a Dream" direct by aranofsky and written in 1968 by Hubert Selby whose tenacity is on the Nietsche level. The film is a few years old but features some incredible acting by Ellen Burstyn and Jennifer Connelly in addition to a dialogue that should be a must for purposes of addiction recovery. Here is the link to a decent review. http://www.plume-noire.com/movies/reviews/requiemforadream.html - just plug that into the address slot of your browser (e.g. iexplorer) and click. Following Flicka's lead I am getting some flicks with redeeming social value from Netflix although in this case my wife's son bought the DVD.