The Lost Weekend (1945)

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Billy Wilder

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Ray Milland
Don Birnam

Jane Wyman
Helen St. James

Phillip Terry
Wick Birnam

Howard Da Silva
Nat

Doris Dowling
Gloria

Frank Faylen
'Bim' Nolan

Mary Young
Mrs. Deveridge

Anita Sharp-Bolster
Mrs. Foley

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Charles R. Jackson
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Charles Brackett
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The Lost Weekend

13 years, 9 months ago at Feb 12 1:36

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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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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. But this bout looks like being his last...one way or the other.

Release date: 1 January 1946
UPC: 025192115325

Tags: Drama (16), Alcoholism (16), 1940s (10), Film Noir (9), Hospital (8), 1945 (8), Robbery (7), Tavern (7), Black & White (6), Writing (6), Hallucination (6), Deception (5), Weekend (5), Usa (4), Coat (4), Telephone Box (4), Based On Novel (3), Pickpocket (3), Bat (3), Overcoat (3)

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