The Lost Weekend
The screen dares to open the strange and savage pages of a shocking bestseller!
Don Birnam, a long-time alcoholic, 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.
- Year: 1945
- Country: United States of America
- Genre: Drama
- Studio: Paramount Pictures
- Keyword: based on novel or book, alcohol, brother, paranoia, bartender, addiction, alcoholism, flashback, film noir, suicidal, black and white, writer, alcoholic, bats, low self esteem, dishonesty, hopelessness, delirium tremens, lies, devoted girlfriend
- Director: Billy Wilder
- Cast: Ray Milland, Jane Wyman, Phillip Terry, Howard Da Silva, Doris Dowling, Frank Faylen