Clean (15)
- Consumer Advice: Contains strong language and drug use
- Run time: 1 hour 51 mins
- Language: French
- Genre: Drama
- Release date: 1st July 2005
- Starring: Maggie Cheung, Mary Moulds, Nick Nolte
- Directed by: Olivier Assayas
- Distributor: Vertigo Films
Plot Synopsis
When there’s no other choice: you change. Emily’s one obsession is her son. He’s living on the other side of the world with Emily’s parents-in-law. All Emily has to do to win the boy back is rebuild her life from the ruins of a rock and roll past …and go clean.
After several years of living together, Lee Hauser and Emily Wang (Maggie Cheung) are all washed up. Mythical rock star of the 80s, Lee no longer has a recording contract. He goes from one small town to another giving concerts.
A carefree life of easy money and fame has gone to ruin.
A child left with Lee’s parents. And drugs.
When Lee is found dead of an overdose in a motel room, Emily is arrested for possession of drugs and put into prison. At the snap of a finger, her life falls to pieces. When she is released six months later, she decides to start over in Paris where she once lived. But everything has changed. The one thing to which she still feels a sense of attachment is her son, Jay, who is growing up with Lee’s parents, Albrecht (Nick Nolte) and Rosemary Hauser. But they live on the other side of the world in Vancouver, Canada.
If Emily ever hopes to see Jay again, she is going to have to find a job and get CLEAN.