The Lost Weekend

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DVD Details

  • Rated: Not Rated
  • Closed captioning available
  • Run Time: 1 hours, 41 minutes
  • Video: Black & White
  • Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
  • Released: February 6, 2001
  • Originally Released: 1945
  • Label: Universal Studios

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Academy Awards 1945 - Best Actor: Ray Milland
Academy Awards 1945 - Best Adapted Screenplay: Billy Wilder & Charles Brackett
Academy Awards 1945 - Best Director: Billy Wilder
Academy Awards 1945 - Best Picture: Not Applicable
Cannes 1946 - Best Actor: Ray Milland

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User Ratings: 8,830
4 stars out of 5 -- [A]s a treatise on addiction generally, it's remarkably sensitive and thoughtful...
Total Film
Jun 1, 2012
Every addiction film since has taken a page from LOST WEEKEND; if only they'd been as good.
Premiere
Dec 1, 2003
Rating: 4/5 -- Taken as a treatise on addiction generally, it's remarkably sensitive and thoughtful. Full Review
Total Film
Feb 20, 2013
Director Billy Wilder's technique of photographing Third Avenue in the grey morning sunlight with a concealed camera to keep the crowds from being self-conscious gives this sequence the shock of reality. Full Review
TIME Magazine
Feb 17, 2009
Dry alkies and wet teetotalers perpetually out of balance, startlingly laid out by Wilder as a lonely metropolis' quivering nervous system Full Review
CinePassion
Mar 13, 2016
Under Wilder's imaginative direction, Milland has been able to convey just what an uncontrollable craving for liquor does to a man's mind, his body and soul. Full Review
New York Daily News
Feb 23, 2012
One of cinema's earliest and best portraits of drug addiction. Full Review
The Age (Australia)
Feb 20, 2013

Product Description:

Ray Milland stars as alcoholic writer Don Birnam in Billy Wilder's first unabashedly dramatic film, and one of the first to deal in such painstaking detail with the disease of alcoholism. Don shares an apartment in New York City in the 1940s with his brother Wick (Phillip Terry) who has his hands full trying to deal with his brother's drinking problem. One night, Don encourages his brother to take his girlfriend Helen St. James (Jane Wyman) to hear some music only so that he can be out from under their watchful eyes. Taking the money left for the maid, he goes out to buy some liquor, stashing one bottle in the chandelier. When he goes to the bar the next day, Nat (Howard Da Silva), the owner berates him for treating his girlfriend badly and warns him that he's on a path toward death. Don returns to the apartment to try to work on his novel "The Bottle," but consumed by self-doubt, goes to another bar, and steals a woman's purse to buy a drink. As the weekend wears on, his spiral downward continues apace. Although dated in some respects, the film's unadorned portrait of the relentless torture that is alcoholism still packs a powerful punch thanks to Wilder's sharp script, the deep-focus camerawork of John Seitz, and a career performance by Ray Milland.

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  • UPC: 025192115325
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