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The Lost Weekend is a 1945 American drama film noir directed by Billy Wilder, and starring Ray Milland and Jane Wyman. It was based on Charles R. Jackson 's 1944 novel of the same name about an alcoholic writer. The film was nominated for seven Academy Awards and won four: Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor, and Best Adapted Screenplay.
The Lost Weekend is a film directed by Billy Wilder and starring Ray Milland as Don Birnam, a chronic alcoholic who goes on a four-day binge. The film won four Oscars and is based on a novel by Charles Jackson, who committed suicide after its release.
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- Drama, Film-Noir
- Billy Wilder
- 1946-01
Jun 11, 2022 · Watch or download the classic film directed by Billy Wilder and starring Ray Milland as an alcoholic writer. The Lost Weekend won four Oscars and the Grand Prix at Cannes in 1945.
- 101 min
- 9.7K
- Mo Chou
Writer Don Birnam (Ray Milland) is on the wagon. Sober for only a few days, Don is supposed to be spending the weekend with his brother, Wick (Phillip Terry), but, eager for a drink, Don convinces ...
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- Ray Milland
- Billy Wilder
- Drama
Nov 28, 2023 · On Nov. 29, 1945, Paramount Pictures and Billy Wilder brought their adaptation of The Lost Weekend to theaters in Los Angeles. The film would go on to be nominated for seven Oscars at the 18th ...
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The desperate life of a chronic alcoholic is followed through a four-day drinking bout. 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.
Background. The Lost Weekend (1945) is a serious, painful and uncompromising, frank look at alcohol addiction that follows almost five days ('one lost weekend') in the life of a chronic, tortured alcoholic, and failed writer. The dark-tempered, melodramatic social-problem film was both a critically- and financially-successful endeavor.
