Most Similar Movies to Bright Lights, Big City (1988)
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Seize the Day (1986), Less Than Zero (1987), The Lost Weekend (1945), Can You Ever Forgive Me? (2018), Permanent Midnight (1998), Young Adult (2011), 25th Hour (2002) ... Let's take a look at the following list...

Seize the Day (1986)
Tommy Wilhelm is a good honest man who's fallen on hard times after losing his job, but what really gets to Tommy is seeing both his friends and family turning their backs on him one after the other. He tries to seize the day - in vain.
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Less Than Zero (1987)
A college freshman returns to L.A. for the holidays at his ex-girlfriend's request, but discovers that his former best friend has an out-of-control drug habit.
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The Lost Weekend (1945)
The desperate life of a chronic alcoholic is followed through a four-day drinking bout.
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Can You Ever Forgive Me? (2018)
When Lee Israel falls out of step with current tastes, she turns her art form to deception.
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Permanent Midnight (1998)
A comedy writer struggles to overcome his addiction to heroin.
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Young Adult (2011)
Soon after her divorce, a fiction writer returns to her home in small-town Minnesota, looking to rekindle a romance with her ex-boyfriend, who is now happily married and has a newborn daughter.
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25th Hour (2002)
Cornered by the DEA, convicted New York drug dealer Montgomery Brogan reevaluates his life in the 24 remaining hours before facing a seven-year jail term.
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Wonder Boys (2000)
An English Professor tries to deal with his wife leaving him, the arrival of his editor who has been waiting for his book for seven years, and the various problems that his friends and associates involve him in.
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Lymelife (2008)
A family unit begins to bow under the pressure of a failing marriage.
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Play It as It Lays (1972)
A Hollywood actress undergoes a psychic breakdown and recalls the traumatic events which led to her stay at a sanitarium.
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Being Flynn (2012)
Working in a Boston homeless shelter, Nick Flynn re-encounters his father, a con man and self-proclaimed poet. Sensing trouble in his own life, Nick wrestles with the notion of reaching out yet again to his dad.
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Party Monster (2003)
Based on the true story of Michael Alig, a Club Kid party organizer whose life was sent spiraling down when he bragged on television about killing his drug dealer and roommate.
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The Inevitable Defeat of Mister & Pete (2013)
The sons (Skylan Brooks, Ethan Dizon) of two drug-addled hookers must fend for themselves after one's mother goes missing and the other (Jennifer Hudson) is arrested.
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Scent of a Woman (1992)
A prep school student needing money agrees to "babysit" a blind man, but the job is not at all what he anticipated.
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The Royal Tenenbaums (2001)
The eccentric members of a dysfunctional family reluctantly gather under the same roof for various reasons.
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A Monkey in Winter (1962)
Albert is an inn owner who vowed never to drink again if he and his wife survived the war. They did, and the reformed alcoholic keeps his vow. But times have changed and soon after the war, Albert comes in contact with Gabriel, a young man prone to heavy bouts with the bottle. Gabriel is conflicted over visiting his young daughter in a nearby school and in a moment of...Read all
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The Basketball Diaries (1995)
A teenager finds his dreams of becoming a basketball star threatened after he free falls into the harrowing world of drug addiction.
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