Clean

Sep 1, 2004

1h 51m

★ 6.4

When you don't have a choice, you change.

Overview

After she ends up in prison and loses custody of her son, a woman struggles to assimilate outside her former life and remain clean long enough to regain custody of her son.

Genres

Drama

Production Companies

Rectangle Productions

Haystack Productions

Rhombus Media

ARTE France Cinéma

UK Film Council

Matrix Film Finance

The Film Consortium

Forensic Films

Journeyman Films Ltd.

Clean Trailers

Cast

Emily Wang

Maggie Cheung

Albrecht Hauser

Nick Nolte

Elena

Béatrice Dalle

Irène Paolini

Jeanne Balibar

Vernon

Don McKellar

Rosemary Hauser

Martha Henry

Lee Hauser

James Johnston

Jay

James Dennis

Jean-Pierre

Rémi Martin

Sandrine

Laëtitia Spigarelli

Store Manager

Arnaud Churin

Detective

Kurtys Kidd

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