
Things We Lost in the Fire(2007)
A recent widow invites her husband's troubled best friend to live with her and her two children. As he gradually turns his life around, he helps the family cope and confront their loss.


“When you don't have a choice, you change.”
After she ends up in prison and loses custody of her son, a woman struggles to assimilate outside her former life and remain clean long enough to regain custody of her son.

Maggie Cheung
Emily Wang

Nick Nolte
Albrecht Hauser

Béatrice Dalle
Elena

Jeanne Balibar
Irène Paolini

Don McKellar
Vernon

Martha Henry
Rosemary Hauser
James Johnston
Lee Hauser
James Dennis
Jay

Rémi Martin
Jean-Pierre

Laëtitia Spigarelli
Sandrine
Clean is a drama film released in 2004 exploring themes of paris, france, rock star, loss of loved one, heroin, junkie, addiction. Directed by Olivier Assayas, it stars Maggie Cheung, Nick Nolte, Béatrice Dalle. After she ends up in prison and loses custody of her son, a woman struggles to assimilate outside her former life and remain clean long enough to regain custody of her son.
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