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Scorsese and Schrader are at their most inspired in the raucous theater of the emergency room, in which patients on stretchers scream at one another to shut up, and an admitting nurse (played by Schrader's wife, the brilliant Mary Beth Hurt) takes pains to let the drunks and addicts and failed suicides know just how much they're imposing on her.
(Why else would we hear so many addicts recounting their experiences with the phrase "if only I had known ..."
Sadly, for non-sports addicts, the holiday season continues its grim run.
In fact, the true number was closer to 35,000, and a decade later, the government has yet to mount a meaningful program for the children of addicts.
And many of the people in question are real deadbeats--drunks, addicts, and the like.