The Lost Weekend
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11/29/1945Runtime
101 minsGenres
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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ReleasedOriginal Language
EnglishBudget
$1,250,000Revenue
$11,000,000Homepage
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A harrowing descent into alcoholism that doesn't look away from its subject, tracking one man's four-day spiral with unflinching psychological intensity. The film moves between cruel clarity and hallucinatory confusion, making the experience itself feel like a slow loss of control.
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Heads up
Ray Milland
Don Birnam
Jane Wyman
Helen St. James
Phillip Terry
Wick Birnam
Howard Da Silva
Nat the Bartender
Doris Dowling
Gloria
Frank Faylen
'Bim' Nolan
Mary Young
Mrs. Deveridge
Anita Sharp-Bolster
Mrs. Foley
Lilian Fontaine
Mrs. Charles St. James
Frank Orth
Opera Cloak Room Attendant
Lewis L. Russell
Charles St. James
Andy Andrews
Alcoholic (uncredited)
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