The Lost Weekend
The Lost Weekend
“ The screen dares to open the strange and savage pages of a shocking bestseller! ”
CINEMA1945-11-29
RegionUS
Runtime101 MIN
Media TypeMovie
PRODUCTION COMPANIES
Storyline
Longtime alcoholic Don Birnam has been sober for ten days and appears to be over the worst... but his craving has just become more insidious. Evading a country weekend planned by his brother and girlfriend, he begins a four-day bender that just might be his last – one way or another.
DIRECTOR / Director
Billy Wilder
KEYWORDS
based on novel or bookalcoholbrotherparanoiabartenderaddictionalcoholismflashbackfilm noirsuicidalblack and whitewriteralcoholicbatslow self esteemdishonestyhopelessnessdelirium tremensliesdevoted girlfriend
