Title | : | The Lost Weekend |
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Release | : | 1945 |
Rating | : | 8 |
Language | : | English |
Runtime | : | 101 |
Genre | : | Drama,Film-Noir |
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.
Charles R. Jackson (from the novel by), Charles Brackett (screen play), Billy Wilder (screen play)