The Glug

Duration: 15

Genre: Educational | Social guidance | Youth

Year Published: 1981

Creator: Educational Film Center

Format: 16mm

Color: Color

Sound: sound

Description: Dramatizes reality of childhood alcoholism by portraying a young boy with a serious drinking problem. Shows Billy and his friends taking beer from a delivery truck and drinking or "glugging" it while playing "truth or dare" in a deserted boat house. Introduces older sister Julie who has had drinking problems and is seeing a counselor. Chronicles complications at home and in school. Concludes after Billy, alone and drunk, almost drowns by the boat house; Julie pulls him out of the water and decides to expose her brother's alcoholism in order to help him face his problem.

Complete Record: Dramatizes reality of childhood alcoholism by portraying a young boy with a serious drinking problem. Shows Billy and his friends taking beer from a delivery truck and drinking or "glugging" it while playing "truth or dare" in a deserted boat house. Introduces older sister Julie who has had drinking problems and is seeing a counselor. Chronicles complications at home and in school. Concludes after Billy, alone and drunk, almost drowns by the boat house; Julie pulls him out of the water and decides to expose her brother's alcoholism in order to help him face his problem., NOTE: Two (or more) records have been merged together to create this data.