Fans have taken to social media to praise Mila Kunis for her performance in Four Good Days after the 2020 film was added to Netflix.
Four Good Days was originally released at the Sundance Film Festival in 2020 and sees Kunis play a heroin addict alongside Glenn Close as the mother who is desperately trying to help her get sober.
The movie is based on a true story of an addict who moved in with her mother during her recovery process, which was detailed in a 2016 Washington Post article.
Kunis stars as Margaret "Molly" Wheeler, a 31-year-old addict who needs to stay sober for four more days in order to be eligible for a life-saving drug.
The actress looks worlds away from her usual glamorous self in the role, after dropping a stone in weight to embody the character.
She told Yahoo Entertainment at the time: "The physicality of it becomes really challenging, and she’s just in a constant state of despair. My character never had any release. She just didn’t.
"So I was really happy that the film wasn’t a two-month-long production. You know, sometimes you’re like, 'Oh, I wish this went on longer.' I was very happy when it ended. I was like, 'I’m good. This is enough.'"
While the film originally came out two years earlier, fans are only just discovering Four Good Days after it arrived on Netflix.
They took to Twitter to praise the movie, despite being a difficult one to watch. One wrote: "Four good days. it’s the sad reality. Absolutely broke my heart, such a sad film. Drugs and alcohol are the devil."
Another added: "Just absolutely balled my eyes out at Four Good Days on Netflix. What a movie," while someone else wrote: "Mila Kunis in #fourgooddays just wow."
Kunis is better known for lighter roles, including voicing Meg Griffin in Family Guy and starring Forgetting Sarah Marshall and Ted.
However, her take on the harrowing tale in Four Good Days left fans justifiably blown away.
The real-life story behind the film is just as emotional, being based on the true story of a mother and daughter named Libby Alexander and Amanda Wendler.
The screenplay was based on an article in the Washington Post by Eli Saslow titled, "'How’s Amanda?' A story of truth, lies, and an American addiction", charting how Alexander helped Wendler as she battled addiction.
While some things were changed in the movie, others were taken as they were portrayed in the article, including the mother and daughter's relationship and the impact the addiction had on the mother.
The article and the movie both focused on the crucial four days that Wendler needed to stay sober for in order to get her first dose of naltrexone, a drug that stops the effects of heroin and makes it impossible to get high.
The film finishes as Kunis's character's new life after addiction is set to begin, and the real-life Wendler has also recovered from her addiction but admits it is a daily battle to maintain her sobriety.
She told the Detroit Free Press: "If you would have asked me five or six years ago how I would see myself in five years, never could I imagine that I would have peace in my life, that I actually can get a good night’s sleep and rest and not worry about where I was going to sleep or how I was going to eat. It’s just like night and day. I mean, I love my life today.
"This will be with me for the rest of my life. I know that. The one thing is you cannot quit quitting. You’ve got to keep at it. Finally, it stuck."
