<P> For her performance as an alcoholic mother, Ryan received a Screen Actors Guild Award nomination for Best Female Actor in a Leading Role . The film's title is taken from the song of the same name by Percy Sledge . </P> <P> The film chronicles one woman's (Meg Ryan) alcoholism and her husband's (Andy García) efforts to help her . </P> <P> Meg Ryan plays Alice Green, a school counselor who has a serious drinking problem and is married to Michael (Andy García), an airline pilot . Though she's lighthearted and loving, Alice is often reckless and, when drunk, even neglects her children: nine - year - old daughter Jess (Tina Majorino) from a previous marriage, and four - year - old daughter Casey (Mae Whitman), whose father is Michael . </P> <P> One afternoon, Alice enters their home in a drunken incoherent state . She dismisses the reluctant caretaker, who leaves her alone with her children . Still drinking, Alice is confronted by her eldest daughter concerned for her mother's welfare . In return, she violently slaps Jess, who runs to her room crying . Alice enters the shower . Unable to control her balance and calling for Jess, she falls to the side and smashes through the shower door onto the bathroom floor . Fearing her mother has died, Jess contacts Michael who immediately flies home to be by his wife's side . </P>

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