Released
The Lost Weekend
November 29 1945 (about 79 years ago)Rating
76
Based on
588 reviews
The screen dares to open the strange and savage pages of a shocking bestseller!
- Director: Billy Wilder
- Writers: Charles Brackett, Billy Wilder
- Genre: Drama
- Runtime: 1 h 41 m
- Budget: $1,250,000
- Box office: $11,000,000
- Country: United States of America
- Company: Paramount Pictures
Don Birnam, a long-time alcoholic, 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.
