The Lost Weekend
starring: Ray Milland, Jane Wyman, Phillip Terry, Howard Da Silva, Doris Dowling
directed by: Billy Wilder
directed by: Billy Wilder
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Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
Brand: Universal
EAN: 0025192115325
Format: Black & White, Closed-captioned, DVD-Video, Full Screen, NTSC
Label: Universal Studios
Manufacturer: Universal Studios
Number Of Items: 1
Picture Format: Pan & Scan
Publisher: Universal Studios
Region Code: 1
Release Date: February 06, 2001
Running Time: 101 minutes
Sales Rank: 9070
Studio: Universal Studios
Theatrical Release Date: 1945
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Editorial Review:
Description:
Billy Wilder creates a searing portrait of an alcoholic. Don Birnam is a writer whose lust for booze consumes his career, his life, and his loved ones.
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'I'm not a drinker--I'm a drunk.' These words, and the serious message behind them, were still potent enough in 1945 to shock audiences flocking to The Lost Weekend. The speaker is Don Birnam (Ray Milland), a handsome, talented, articulate alcoholic. The writing team of producer Charles Brackett and director Billy Wilder pull no punches in their depiction of Birnam's massive weekend bender, a tailspin that finds him reeling from his favorite watering hole to Bellevue Hospital. Location shooting in New York helps the street-level atmosphere, especially a sequence in which Birnam, a budding writer, tries to hock his typewriter for booze money. He desperately staggers past shuttered storefronts--it's Yom Kippur, and the pawnshops are closed. Milland, previously known as a lightweight leading man (he'd starred in Wilder's hilarious The Major and the Minor three years earlier), burrows convincingly under the skin of the character, whether waxing poetic about the escape of drinking or screaming his lungs out in the D.T.'s sequence. Wilder, having just made the ultra-noir Double Indemnity, brought a new kind of frankness and darkness to Hollywood's treatment of a social problem. At first the film may have seemed too bold; Paramount Pictures nearly killed the release of the picture after it tested poorly with preview audiences. But once in release, The Lost Weekend became a substantial hit, and won four Oscars: for picture, director, screenplay, and actor. --Robert Horton
Average Rating: 
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- "ODAP Highly Recommends This Movie"Yes, ODAP recommends this. Who is ODAP? ODAP is the name of that little monkey on my back. Odap ... Read More
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- The Lost WeekendThe is an amazing movie in that it takes a subject that is problematic for our nation, and somehow ... Read More
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- still the classicWhy was this movie not made mandatory viewing in every school in the 50s Well, we all know the reason. ... Read More
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- Moderation, Mista Boynum....Moderation.This film is a wonderful work of art alongside the likes of Casablanca. It is amazingly ahead of its time ... Read More
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- Very Good Movie! Too Bad About the DVD!This is one powerful movie that must have shocked the audience of those days and yet the message is so relevant ... Read More
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