Julia (2009)

Tilda Swinton owns this story of a self-destructive, chain-smoking alcoholic who can't hold a job and attempts to survive by getting involved in a half-baked plot to kidnap a boy for ransom money. Thoroughly engaging to watch, she is truly convincing as a hardcore alcoholic, though I understand the actor neither smokes nor drinks. More interesting, I learned that Tilda Swinton has a curious living arrangement in the Scottish Highlands with her 31 year old painter boyfriend, her teenage twins...and their father.