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Kate (Mary Elizabeth Winstead) and Charlie (Aaron Paul, TV’s “Breaking Bad” ) are a young married couple whose bond is built on a mutual love of music, laughter and drinking...especially the drinking. When Kate’s drinking leads her to dangerous places and her job as a school teacher is put into jeopardy, she decides to join AA and get sober. With the help of her new friend and sponsor Jenny (Octavia Spencer, The Help), and the vice principal at her school, the awkward, but well intentioned, Mr. Davies, Kate takes steps toward improving her and life. Sobriety isn't as easy as Kate had anticipated. Her new lifestyle brings to the surface a troubling relationship with her mother, facing the lies she's told her employer (Megan Mullaly TV’s “Parks and Recreation” ) and calls into question whether or not her relationship with Charlie is built on love or just a boozy diversion from adulthood. .com ---- Alcoholism ruins relationships, careers, and lives, but sometimes relationships perpetuate alcoholism. Kate (Mary Elizabeth Winstead) and her husband Charlie (Aaron Paul) share a love of drinking and partying, but Kate is beginning to realize that lately, every time she drinks, something awful happens. Her drinking is leading her to increasingly dangerous behavior, including illegal drug use, chronic lying, and an inability to perform her duties as an elementary school teacher. A coworker (Nick Offerman) shares his own battle with alcoholism with Kate and introduces her to an Alcoholics Anonymous group, but only she can decide which path her life will take from there--and who might or might not join her on that path. This film paints a striking picture of the stark reality that relationships and alcoholism can be tightly interwoven and that sometimes recovery, personal honesty, and taking responsibility lead not to reward, but to additional pain, suffering, and negative economic consequences. Winstead is outstanding as Kate--in fact, she's so believable that you may just be tempted to call the school and insist they give your child's teacher a breathalyzer test. --Tami Horiuchi