The Lost Weekend

The Lost Weekend

1945 · 1 hr 41 min · Approved

Drama, Film-Noir

Directors

Billy Wilder

Actors

  • Ray Milland
  • Jane Wyman
  • Phillip Terry

Credits: 1

Summary

The desperate life of a chronic alcoholic is followed through a four-day drinking bout.

More about this movie

Don Birnam, long-time alcoholic, has been "on the wagon" for ten days and seems to be over the worst; but his craving has just become more insidious. Evading a country weekend planned by his brother Wick and girlfriend Helen, he begins a four-day bender. In flashbacks we see past events, all gone wrong because of the bottle. But this bout looks like being his last...one way or the other.