The Lost Weekend (1945)

7.9	Listal rating
8.1	IMDB rating

Directed by

Billy Wilder

Starring (View all)

Don Birnam

Helen St. James

Wick Birnam

Nat

Gloria

'Bim' Nolan

Mary Young

Mrs. Deveridge

Anita Sharp-Bolster

Mrs. Foley

Written by (View all)

Charles R. Jackson

(from the novel by)

Charles Brackett

(screenplay) and

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The Lost Weekend

3 years, 4 months ago at Feb 11 19:36

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Billy Wilder was never afraid to bounce back and forth between making you laugh and making you cry. People tend to think of him as the jovial jokester behind Some Like It Hot, The Fortune Cookie and The Apartment. Fine movies all, but he also did black-as-midnight comedies (Sunset Boulevard) and tremendously powerful dramas like The Lost Weekend. Billy Wilder was a genius, and this was only his fo... read more

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Description: Don Birnam, long-time alcoholic, has been "on the wagon" for ten days and seems to be over the worst; but his craving has just become more insidious. Evading a country weekend planned by his brother Wick and girlfriend Helen, he begins a four-day bender. In flashbacks we see past events, all gone wrong because of the bottle. ... (more)

Release date : 16 November 1945
UPC: 025192115325

Drama (16), Alcoholism (13), 1940s (10), Film Noir (8), Hospital (8), 1945 (7), Robbery (7), Hallucination (6), Writing (6), Tavern (6), Usa (6), Deception (5), Weekend (5), Black & White (5), Telephone Box (4), Coat (4), Overcoat (3), Pickpocket (3), Bat (3), 1940's (2)

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Mack's Movies 2013: June (7 movies items)

" June 6th Overall opinion: Very good I am trying to go through that Top 500 Cult Films list I put up on here so I can add some actual opinions to it and not just copy from the book. I picked a random one from the drama section and started watching- sometimes I do that expecting to lose interest and find something else to watch, but The Lost Weekend really pulled me in. One review from that 500 Cult Films book said it was hard to watch, and yeah, it really was. It's hard to watch the story of a"