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The Lost Weekend
Release Date: November 29, 1945
Year | : | 1945 |
Slogan | : | «The screen dares to open the strange and savage pages of a shocking bestseller!» |
Genres | : | Drama |
Production Companies | : | Paramount |
Director | : | Billy Wilder |
Producers | : | Charles Brackett, Richard Blaydon, Frank Parmenter |
Writers | : | Billy Wilder, Charles Brackett, Charles R. Jackson |
RunTime | : | 101 mins. |
Budget | : | 1250000 |
Revenue | : | 11000000 |
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.
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Trailer: The Lost Weekend (1945) ORIGINAL TRAILER
Featurette: Mark Pellington on THE LOST WEEKEND
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