Zeus

I'm Dancing As Fast As I Can (1982)

• Director
  • Jack Hofsiss
• Writers
  • Barbara Gordon
  • David Rabe
• Stars
  • Jill Clayburgh
  • Nicol Williamson
  • Dianne Wiest

  Jill Clayburgh plays, as one character calls her, "a pill-popping dingbat" in this film adaptation of television producer Barbara Gordon's autobiographical account of her addiction to prescription drugs. Clayburgh plays Gordon in the film as a successful television documentary filmmaker whose mounting pressures force her to pop a Valium or two for nerves. She then ingests a few more pills after an argument with boyfriend Derek Bauer (Nicol Williamson). And thus begins her slow and steady compulsion to keep taking more and more Valium. Finally realizing her addiction, Gordon makes a disastrous attempt to go cold turkey but fails miserably, finally having to undergo a painful rehabilitation in an institution.