The Cleaner’s Amy Price-Francis and pilot episode preview
Earlier this week I had the opportunity to interview Amy Price-Francis of Californication, who plays the wife of Benjamin Bratt’s character in A&E’s new series The Cleaner.
Here’s a peek of Benjamin Bratt and Amy Price-Francis together in The Cleaner.
I also watched the pilot episode “screener” for The Cleaner, and I’m happy to report that that it’s definitely worth watching.
Benjamin Bratt plays interventionist William “The Cleaner” Banks who goes to whatever means necessary to save people from their addictions, because he has been there before. And just because he’s clean from his heroin addiction doesn’t mean all of his troubles are over. The series is intriguing because it shows even though you are over the addiction, you still need to clean up the messes that it made in your life (in your family life especially). Some of his intervention team members also have pasts with addictions of one sort or another and it’s interesting to see how their lives have changed, and how some of them are still struggling to keep clean. For some, it’s a day-to-day challenge.
The pilot also was true-to-life, not just dramatization, showing how a once-athlete standout high school student can turn into a meth addict almost overnight and how hard it is for parents sometimes to come to terms with what their child is doing.
The Cleaner will debut on A&E on July 15 at 10 p.m. ET/PT.
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1 opinion for The Cleaner’s Amy Price-Francis and pilot episode preview
CR
Jul 16, 2008 at 10:07 am
If only it were that easy: grab someone and shove them into rehab and all will be well. This show scares me by it’s lack of reality at a time when educating everyone about addiction is crucial. Rehab statistics are lousy: 87+% will relapse, usually over and over again. Yet rehabs are big business and growing - check out how many exist in CA alone! So one wonders if the purpose of “The Cleaner” is to keep the revolving doors of rehab centers moving?
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