Meet the Cast
James Frey
They Tried to Make Him Go to RehabJames Frey is our narrator. He is a boozer, a user, and a loser, or in his words, "an Alcoholic […] a Drug Addict and […] a Criminal" (1.7.209).At the beginnin...
Leonard
The Rehab Tenenbaums
Leonard is James's gangster friend. He looks like Gene
Hackman (not in this movie,
though), and he likes to bet on sports.
They meet when Leonard threatens to beat James up...
Lilly
Your Love Is My Drug
Lilly is James's girlfriend while they're in rehab. They
sneak out into the woods, breaking all the rehab rules, just to be with one
another. So it must be love, right?...
James Frey's Family and Friends
Not a Family Guy
James is the relative you invite to Thanksgiving dinner but
secretly hope won't show up. ("Maybe he'll relapse this year.")
This dude is absolutely terrible to his parents, B...
Employees at the Clinic
R-E-S-P-E-C-T
There are few people at the clinic James actually respects.
He openly antagonizes most of them, but there are two people he grows to
tolerate.
The first is Hank, the van driver, w...
Other Patients
Losing Our Patients
Roy
is one of the first patients to make an impression on James—and that
impression isn't a good one. According to James, Roy is "thin, preppy,
nearly bald [with] small nervo...