When a Man Loves a Woman is a 1994 American romantic drama film written by Al Franken and Ronald Bass, starring Andy García, Meg Ryan, Tina Majorino, Mae Whitman, Ellen Burstyn, Lauren Tom and Philip Seymour Hoffman. For her performance, Ryan received a Screen Actors Guild Award nomination for Best Female Actor in a Leading Role. The movie's title is taken from the song of the same name by Percy Sledge. The movie chronicles one woman's alcoholism and her husband's efforts to help her. Meg Ryan plays Alice Green, a school counselor who has a serious drinking problem and is married to... Michael , an airline pilot. Though she's lighthearted and loving, Alice is often reckless and, when drunk, even neglects her children, nine-year-old daughter Jess from a previous marriage, and four-year-old daughter Casey , whose father is Michael. After an accident, Alice realizes that she has "hit bottom" and goes into a clinic for rehab. When she returns home, she has kicked her addiction and has become independent and strong, and her perfectionist, controlling husband has trouble adjusting.
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| Release date: | April 29, 1994 |
| Directed by: | Luis Mandoki |
| Rated: |  |
| Runtime: | 126 Minutes |
| Producer: | Jon Avnet |
| Screenplay by: | Ronald Bass, Al Franken |