Emily's life hangs in the balance, she's a junkie living with a failing rock-star, who's about to od on heroin, she has dreams of her own of rock success and she's a mother trying to raise a young boy. Sentenced to 6 months in prison she emerges to a world of limited options, her son has been taken into the care of her parents-in-law, she has to stay clean and she needs to find a way of making a living. She moves restlessly from Canada to London to Paris, can't hack a dead-end job as a waitress find out more...

Hoffman is outstanding, especially in the night club stand up comedy scenes, as the flawed cult NY genius Lenny Bruce, the Beat Generation kid who became a blueprint for a new kind of entertainer with his outrageous anti-establishment routine, his profanities, his attitude toward drugs, his irreverence and general anarchistic demeanour. A must for all budding stand up comedians and fans of good movies. find out more...