The Morning After

TV Movie
1974
1h 15m

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A successful public-relations man's refusal to admit his alcoholism jeopardizes his career, his family, and his life.A successful public-relations man's refusal to admit his alcoholism jeopardizes his career, his family, and his life.A successful public-relations man's refusal to admit his alcoholism jeopardizes his career, his family, and his life.

Director
- Richard T. Heffron
Writers
- Richard Matheson
- Jack B. Weiner
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7.7/10

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Director
- Richard T. Heffron
Writers
- Richard Matheson
- Jack B. Weiner
Stars

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Nominated for 1 Primetime Emmy
- 1 nomination total

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Trivia
Unknown to anyone but those close to him, Dick Van Dyke had been struggling with a real-life drinking problem for several years prior to making this movie. Before filming began, he decided to tell director Richard Heffron about his struggles. As a result, while filming, Heffron would lay out scenes, then tell Van Dyke, "you know more about this than I do, so just do it the way you see it, the way you feel it." Just before the movie aired, Van Dyke decided to go public with his alcoholism struggles, becoming one of the first entertainment figures to go public about a drinking problem. He received thousands of letters of support.

Quotes
Rudy King: [after Charlie has attended an important meeting while hung over] I'm not going to mince words, Charlie. We've known each other too long for that. You were a disgrace this morning; I can still smell the liquor on your breath. I don't know how many of those men knew you were hung over, but I certainly did.

Connections
Featured in The 26th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards (1974)

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Written by John Lennon and Paul McCartney
Sung by Joey Scarbury

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a classic

I cannot say enough good things about this film. I guess it is the mark of a classic that a film that was made almost thirty years ago could still touch people today. Dick Van Dyke deserved an Emmy for his mind-blowing performance as a tragic alcoholic. This movie has the grimmest ending you could imagine but it makes it a better film and a cut above the typical "disease of the week" fare tv has so often served. What is so amazing to me is that Dick Van Dyke had never played a dramatic part before he took on this one. He has played two other dramatic parts I remember well, he was a priest accused of murder in The Runner Stumbles and played another alcoholic in an HBO presentation of The Country Girl. Its so ironic that all three of these fine performances that he gave are now almost impossible to see. I have gotten e-mails from people after I got my copy of TMA asking me how they could get it because they have family members who are alcohlics. All right,go to "Google" on your computer. It is the most effective search engine and type in Weird World Of 70's Cinema Video Library. They have many, many rare videos that I didn't even know existed and The Morning After is one of them. Thats how you can get a copy. The e-mail address of this site is fantasma@negation.net. A man named Fitzgerald owns the site. He will gladly send you a copy at a very reasonable price.