I agree 100%. As a person in recovery and who works in recovery my hope is that Mindy never has to go through what Lois and my family went through and if they do I pray that they find what these 2 people, along with others, created.

To bad you are in denial as to the dysfunction in your life, your families lives and the world in general. Maybe get out from behind that computer and look at reality! Alcohol is affecting all people whether it is the person or having lived closely with an alcoholic 3-4 generations ago, and those rules that applied are the ones you live by today. Please open your eyes and broaden the tunnel vision.

Anything that gives hope to anyone, anywhere resulting in their putting down a drink or drug, or getting help to escape this terrible disease should be applauded, not "snarked" Hallmark or not.

Im sure that most people will be watching Desperate Housewives or something as socially meaningful

Its such individuals as you, whom I wish had a program! Open minded...such a gift. Will say a pray for you that you never have to encounter or deal with this fatal disease. Just because you can't see it on an x-ray, MRI, or whatever else they have...doesn't mean its not real, and real people need hope..God Bless the Wilsons.

I think it's a wonderful thing, that these two people formed programs to help those afflicted. However, I also understand what Mindy was saying... that it's a heavy-duty subject, and given Hallmark also likely to be melodramatic, and therefore difficult to watch, especially if she just finished watching another TV-movie on another heavy-duty subject (Kevorkian and euthanasia). She's snarking that she's not in the mood for another show like that. She didn't insult any program or those who suffer from alcoholism. She's talking about TV and whether or not people might be interested in watching that particular story. Ordinarily, I might find it relatively interesting, and I do like the actors involved... however, I have enough stuff going on in my own life right now that I'm not in the mood for something heavy like that. So I appreciated finding out what the subject matter of the TV movie was and that it was unlikely to be something I'm able to watch right now. Ease up, people.

I'm an AIDS advocate, but I find Philadelphia incredibly difficult to watch. I've been a counselor for survivors of sexual assault, but I find movies like Boys Don't Cry and The Accused incredibly difficult to watch. Neither of those things make me a bad person, and Mindy's statements don't make her a bad person. Not wanting to watch a heart-wrenching biopic about the founder of Alcoholics Anonymous and AlAnon isn't equivalent to disrespecting those programs!

Snarking just to be snarky? OK. I get it now. Never mind. I was just searching for a meaningful review. Didn't really need Mindy to tell me the subject was going to be heavy. That's why we also have Dancing with the Stars and American Idol.

based on Mindys defensive and negative reaction to When Love is Not Enough...seems definite that she may have drinking issues herself....(a "bar trivia question", seems like an odd thing to say) Do yourself a favor an TIVO it....you may actually get something out of it! Im glad they had the guts to air it!!!

These comments are beginning to sound like Yahoo's. We used to have more intelligent posters. Mods?

I agree, it may just help one person. That one person may be someones father, brother, mother sister, friend...then how many lives does just that one person really affect....

As a grateful member of AlAnon of many years I made a note to watch it. i just wish my teenage children were interested in watching it as well...They lived some of it. Interesting how it is not interesting for them.

I'm in the movie. I'm the one walkign witht he little boy down the staircase. I bump into her on the stairs when shes all sad.

Me, too! I am da litle boy on th stare kase!

The depiciton is this film of alcholism is actually mild compared to real life. No one knows what it's like until they lived it. Wores than heroin addiction...

This is great movie. As a recovering alcoholic and my wife an al-anon member, this movie hits very close to home.

I think that this is the best thing on TV tonight. How can anything you watch compare to this heartbreaking story! You would have to live in midst of such struggles to understand. And for someone to say its not worth watching is unfair. How obtuse and selfish of you! It is wonderful this was to watch and to know how it all began! And your comment regarding BAR TRIVIA when mentioning a movie about ALCOHOLISM is beyond trashy!

This article really got my blood pressure up because it is ignorant at best. What really got me going though is someone who "SPENT" hmmm, obviously no longer sober, badmouthing AA. Seriously, Bill W. was an alcoholic, just like the rest of us. He was a philanderer, liar, cheater, thief, just like the rest of us and just like the rest of us it was all about him. Think of him what you will, but without that selfish; lying; sack of no good cr*P - I WOULD NOT BE SOBER TODAY. SO, THANK YOU BILL, LOIS, DR. BOB AND HALLMARK HALL OF FAME. AND GOD BLESS MINDY AND SARAH AND EVERYONE ELSE TONIGHT AND THANK YOU FOR ONE MORE SOBER DAY.

The main issue isn't the snark of this post about the movie, but that the movie was TERRIBLE. Not to mention that Hallmark apparently didn't feel the need to show Bill's womanizing, his clinical depression, and billed this as the wife's love is was brought him to sobriety.

I feel like the movie's omission of the real story made the couple really disingenuous to me. It also is irritating that they covered the 12 steps in detail, but didn't really cover the specifics of Al-Anon beliefs and policies.

It's a shame because I didn't know anything about what this movie was about and just started watching it after TAR and I feel like I didn't really get the full story.

I was not in the mood to watch this movie since I have lived through a similar situation. I invited my husband to watch it with me. He's been sober for almost 2 and a half yrs. now, second time around. I still have difficulty accepting the idea that it is a disease because of how selfish it is. Winona did a great job showing how you lose yourself. Realizing the loss gives you the strength to make those difficult decisions that detach. I know watching this movie helped so many people.

Further thought...Interesting comment from Barbara, that's been my problem with a lot of Hallmark movies. I got a much better understanding of addiction from Marian Keyes's comic chick lit "Rachel's Holiday", say, than from a dozen Uplifting Movies like this one, precisely because it made its addict human and complicated and it wasn't taking itself too seriously. The Nollidge snuck in under the laughter...

Because the first step is admitting that you have no sense of humor.

Wow, who knew that when you stopped drinking, you lost your sense of humour. Then again maybe a lot of you fell off the wagon since you don't understand how to post comments only once.

I must say I was a bit disappointed in the quality of the movie. It didn't get you "into it". I don't know about filming, but it seemed too much like I was just watching... which I was, but, I don't know, .. maybe it was the angle of the shots or the acting or whatever, but I felt distanced from the scenes, not there, not invested. Despite the over acting, I liked the scene where the husband, coming into the AA meeting, was uncomfortable that his wife might be talking about him with the other wives in the kitchen. Common,ego threatening, self centeredness of some alcoholics. Bill's answer about the spouse of an alcoholic being affected (made "sick") by the drinking should really should have been the heart of the movie. That was where Lois' contribution began! Even if your loved one never stops drinking, Al-Anon can help you find serenity. Otherwise, you become as crazy as the drunk! The twelve steps are virtually the same for both groups. It is often said that people go to AA to stay sober and then they come to Al-Anon to get better. It is a wonderful program for your own personal growth. Check it out. www.al-anon.alateen.org

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