The Lost Weekend
by Billy Wilder
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Actor: Doris Dowling, Howard Da Silva, Jane Wyman, Phillip Terry, Ray MillandDirector: Billy Wilder
Brand: Universal
Cinematographer: John F. Seitz
Writer: Billy Wilder
Producer: Charles Brackett
Writer: Charles Brackett
Writer: Charles R. Jackson
DVD: 2 Layers, Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono; Spanish (Subtitled); French (Subtitled)
Format: Black & White, Closed-captioned, DVD-Video, Full Screen, NTSC
Picture Format: Pan & Scan, 1.33:1
Running Time: 101 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2001-02-06
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Universal Studios
Movie Reviews of The Lost Weekend
Movie Review: A Classic Film With A Great Message ref: Alcoholism
Summary: 5 Stars
Anyone that has had to deal with alcoholism, will quickly realize that this film is right on the mark. Everything from the blackouts, the denial that there is a problem, the tremors, family disintegration, etc.
It was made in 1944, but it's impact and its significance is just as huge as if it were filmed in 2009. I highly recommend the film.
Summary of The Lost Weekend
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."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
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