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Overview
Showtime's "In the 20th Century" is a millennium-related strand of feature-length documentaries in which famous directors take on major subjects of their choosing. In the fourth of the six films, "The Pursuit of Happiness," filmmaker Robert Zemeckis delves into the history of America's relationship with mind-altering substances over the past 100 years, presenting interviews with historians and professionals in the drug treatment field, interspersed with a treasure trove of film and television clips depicting the highs and lows of smoking, drinking and drugging in the 20th century.
Details
- Status
- Released
- Release date
- September 13, 1999
- Original language
- English
- Spoken languages
- English
- Countries
- United States of America
- Production
- Showtime Networks,Touchstone Television
- Cast
- Tom Pirko,Sandi Bachom,Barry Hansen,Dennis Hopper,Marc F. Kern,Stanton Peele,Peter Hayden,Phil Kavanaugh,John MacDougall
- Director
- Robert Zemeckis
- Writer
- Susan Emerling
- Producer
- Sandra Itkoff,Lesli Klainberg
- Cinematography
- Denis Maloney,Ian Kelly
- Budget
- Not recorded
- Revenue
- Not recorded
- IMDb
- View on IMDb