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This awards seasons strangest bit player has been disgraced memoirist James Frey.

Aaron Taylor-Johnson as James Frey in

We learn that James will die if he keeps living like this.

We see him enduring unanesthetized dental work on his ruined teeth.

We never really get a sense of why or when he decides he actually wants to get clean.