Film

The Lost Weekend 1945

Directed by Billy Wilder

  • Drama
  • 101 min
  • NR

The screen dares to open the strange and savage pages of a shocking bestseller!

Longtime alcoholic Don Birnam 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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  • Addiction
  • Suicide or self-harm

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