For a feverish period from the 1990s and into the aughts, Charlie Sheen – son of actor Martin Sheen and brother of actor Emilio Estevez – personified the classic Hollywood bad boy. A notorious party animal, voracious drug and alcohol user and big-spending client of high-priced sex workers, he was also one of the highest-paid actors in the world, pocketing almost $US2 million an episode for playing a hard-to-hate rascal on the hit comedy Two and a Half Men . As former co-star Jon Cryer puts it in a new two-part Netflix documentary about Sheen’s life, he was “an icon of decadence”.

Okay, tell me something I didn’t already know, you might say.

Fortunately, aka Charlie Sheen , produced and directed by Andrew Renzi ( Paul American ) manages to do that – particularly in one ugly, reveali

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