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The Lost Weekend (1945)

The Lost Weekend (1945)

Drama

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

Release Date: 1945, November 29
Directors: Billy Wilder
Countries: United States of America
Production: Paramount Pictures
Cast: Franklyn Farnum, Frank Faylen, Jerry James, Ernest Whitman, Helen Dickson, Dick Gordon, Max Wagner, Howard Da Silva, Emmett Vogan, Amzie Strickland, William O'Leary, Lester Sharpe

Overview:

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.

Keywords:

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