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Key Information
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| Directors: |
Billy Wilder |
| Stars: |
Ray Milland |
| Actors: |
Jane Wyman |
| Genre: |
Dramas |
| Subgenre: |
Recommended · Character Study · Tear Jerker · Substance Abuse · Road To Ruin · Essential Cinema · Classic |
| MPAA Rating: |
Not Rated |
| Available Formats: |
DVD: Limited Edition Packaging |
| UPC: |
096898035439 |
| Release Date: |
1945 |
| Running Time: |
1hr 41min |
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Languages
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| Original Language: |
English |
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DVD Editions
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Format: DVD: Limited Edition Packaging, 1hr 41min
Release Company: Universal Studios Home Video (February 06, 2001)
UPC: 025192115325 |
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VHS Editions
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Format: VHS, 1hr 41min |
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Credits
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| Screenwriter: |
Charles Brackett |
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Professional Reviews
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(12/01/2003, p.5, Premiere Staff): "Every addiction film since has taken a page from LOST WEEKEND; if only they'd been as good." |
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Quotes from the Movie
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"It shrinks my liver, doesn't it, Nat? It pickles my kidneys, yeah. But what does it do to my mind? It tosses the sandbags overboard so the balloon can soar. Suddenly I'm above the ordinary. I'm competent, supremely competent. I'm walking a tightrope over Niagara Falls. I'm one of the great ones. I'm Michelangelo, molding the beard of Moses. I'm van Gogh, painting pure sunlight. I'm Horowitz, playing the Emperor Concerto. I'm John Barrymore before the movies got him by the throat. I'm Jesse James and his two brothers--all three of 'em. I'm W. Shakespeare. And out there it's not Third Avenue any longer--it's the Nile, Nat, the Nile--and down it moves the barge of Cleopatra."--Don Birnam (Ray Milland)
"Good morning, Mary Sunshine!"--male nurse to his alcoholic patients |
| More Information |
| Details: |
Ray Milland stars as alcoholic writer Don Birnam in Billy Wilder's first unabashedly dramatic film, and one of the first to deal in such painstaking detail with the disease of alcoholism. Don shares an apartment in New York City in the 1940s with his brother Wick (Phillip Terry) who has his hands full trying to deal with his brother's drinking problem. One night, Don encourages his brother to take his girlfriend Helen St. James (Jane Wyman) to hear some music only so that he can be out from under their watchful eyes. Taking the money left for the maid, he goes out to buy some liquor, stashing one bottle in the chandelier. When he goes to the bar the next day, Nat (Howard Da Silva), the owner berates him for treating his girlfriend badly and warns him that he's on a path toward death. Don returns to the apartment to try to work on his novel "The Bottle," but consumed by self-doubt, goes to another bar, and steals a woman's purse to buy a drink. As the weekend wears on, his spiral downward continues apace... |
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