As The Hangover hangs on to the box office’s top spot in both the US and UK, we raise a glass to some of movieland’s best drunks. Watching someone get blitzed is far more entertaining than witnessing the aftermath…
Withnail and I
Considering his performance in this film, you’d never guess Richard E. Grant was a teetotaller.
Knocked Up
It takes some serious beer goggles to get Katherine Heigl into bed with Seth Rogan
Blind Date
What a light-weight… Kim Basinger is the perfect blind date – until she has half a shandy, that is,
Raiders of the Lost Ark
Just don’t try and drink Karen Allen under the table.
Pirates of the Caribbean Dead Man’s Chest
What do you do with the drunken sailor? Let him sleep off his hangover while you burn all his rum, if you’re Keira Knightley anyway.
Nick and Norah’s Infinite Playlist
We’ve all been there… Getting so drunk that you retrieve your chewing gum from a toilet bowl… Maybe not then.
Leaving Las Vegas
Giving Amy Winehouse a run for her money, Nic Cage spends the entire movie more hammered than a nail at a carpenters convention.
Old School
Don’t let Will Ferrell’s party-loving ‘Frank The Tank’ loose on your mini-bar.
Almost Famous
It might have been a bit more than booze that made Billy Crudup’s Russell Hammond stand on a roof-top and declare that he was a ‘golden god’, but it was still a lesson for us all.
Hancock
Superman is likely to avoid booze as Kryptonite, but Hancock is never one to pass on the bottle.
Back to the Future 3
If only it was that simple in real life; a bit of ‘wake up juice’ (tabasco sauce, cayenne pepper, chili peppers, onion and mustard seed) and Doc Brown is sobered up and hangover free.
Push
13-year-old Dakota Fanning gets mortal. Make you feel old? Let’s just hope it wasn’t method acting.
The 40 Year Old Virgin
From a 13-year-old drunk to a 40-year-old… There’s no such thing as maturity when booze is involved.
Superbad
Punch drunk love? Jonah Hill’s Seth gets so blotted that he knuckles the girl of his dreams.
E.T
Wouldn’t it be so much cheaper if you could get passively sloshed in real life? When E.T gets tanked up, so does Elliot – with just the point of a finger.
Mean Streets
By attaching a swinging camera to Harvey Keitel’s Charlie and using a wide-angle lens, Martin Scorsese managed to perfectly recreate the feeling of being smashed. A bit too closely.
Weird Science
A bit too much bourbon and Anthony Michael Hall’s Gary becomes an early model for Kevin Federline.
Sideways
Exactly the reason why you’re meant to use the spit bucket when wine tasting.
Observe and Report
Get your chick this drunk and it’s dangerously close to necrophilia when you get back to the bedroom.
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Some people would argue that you have to be drunk to get all the way through this flick, but the inebriated person in question here is Brad Pitt’s man boy – someone who definitely doesn’t need ID when getting served.
Casablanca
Humphrey Bogart’s performance is proof that getting slaughtered on a Friday night is no new thing.
What about Dudley Moore in Arthur? Now there’s a classic drunk…
the first character i thought of when i saw this headline on digg was withnail. i’m glad you included him!
(withnail and i is the best film ever, btw)
Yuck, Hancock sucked balls.
Why isn’t Belushi one here? He should have been number one.
How about William Powell as Nick Charles in The Thin Man?
The Philadelphia Story – Jimmy Stewart and Katherine Hepburn . . . C’mon people! duh.