The Lost Weekend

The Lost Weekend

7.6IMDb Score
Released:1945-11-29
Genre:Drama
Duration:101 min
Director:Billy Wilder
Actors:Ray Milland, Jane Wyman, Phillip Terry, Howard Da Silva, Doris Dowling
Production:Paramount Pictures

Overview:

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.

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