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Name: The Lost Weekend
Released: 1945-11-16
Cast: Ray Milland, Jane Wyman, Phillip Terry, Howard da Silva, Doris Dowling

The Lost Weekend

NR
1h 40m
1945

97%

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The Best Picture of 1945 has lost none of its bite or power in this uncompromising look at the devastating effects of alcoholism. Ironically, this brilliant Billy Wilder film was almost never released because of poor reaction by preview audiences unaccustomed to such stark realism from Hollywood, but the film has since gone on to be regarded as one of the all-time great dramas in movie history. Ray Milland's haunting portrayal of a would-be writer's dissatisfaction with his life leads him on a self-destructive three-day binge. Filled with riveting imagery, the multiple Academy Award®-winner offers an unforgettable view of life on the edge.

Director:

Billy Wilder

Producer:

Billy Wilder

Writer:

Charles Brackett, Billy Wilder

Cast:

Ray Milland, Jane Wyman, Phillip Terry, Howard da Silva, Doris Dowling, Frank Faylen, Mary Young, Anita Sharp-Bolster

Rotten Tomatoes® Score

TOMATOMETER®

97%

Critics Consensus: Director Billy Wilder's unflinchingly honest look at the effects of alcoholism may have had some of its impact blunted by time, but it remains a powerful and remarkably prescient film.

Reviews

Awards Daily

Mark Johnson

Billy Wilder shows why he is one of the all-time great directors and screenwriters with one intense and desperate moment after the next. Filled with acerbic and biting dialogue, Wilder and co-writer Charles Brackett’s script is among the best of its time.

June 27, 2023

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Christian Science Monitor

Edwin F. Melvin

It displays with pitiless realism the humiliation, the degradation and the horror experienced by an alcoholic.

Mr. Jackson's novel is not a masterpiece, but it is a brilliant experiment; and the team of Brackett and Wilder, co-writers and respectively, producer and director, have made of it a film which is often brilliant.

The whole thing is short on imaginative resonance; what it has is the Brackett-and-Wilder specialty -- a distinctive cruel (and sometimes cruelly funny) edge.

As a subject for discussion, it's the film of the year. It is cinematically speaking, a brilliant achievement, with two sequences standing out as high points of film horror, on a strict realistic basis.

February 3, 2022

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