The 10 Most Inspirational Drunks in Cinema

Here we salute the lead-livered legends of libation in cinema that have inspired generations of impressionable filmgoers to take their first fledgling steps down the Primrose Path of high-functioning alcoholism. This piece of ethanol-fueled irreverence was clipped from my upcoming review of the Coen brothers’ 1991 dark comedy, “Barton Fink.”