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The Empress Hotel is home to a rarified clientele - ninety people with mental illness or addiction who have lived on the streets of San Francisco. Not every person can stay on meds or get clean, yet out of hopelessness and chaos, a community is formed. The tenants and those who serve them understand the depth of addiction and the difficulty in giving it up.

Contains some raw language.

Empress Hotel is a 2009 documentary with a runtime of 85 hours. It has received mostly positive reviews from critics and viewers, who have given it an IMDb score of 7.5.