The Lost Weekend (1945)1h41
Drama
Director Billy Wilder (7.5 avg)
Also directed Some Like It Hot, Sunset Boulevard, The Apartment, and 23 more
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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Cast
Ray Milland
Jane Wyman
Phillip Terry
Howard Da Silva
Doris Dowling
Frank Faylen
Mary Young
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