Anita Sharp-Bolster, Doris Dowling, Frank Faylen
"I'm not a drinker--I'm a drunk." These words, and the serious message behind them, were still potent enough in 1945 to shock audiences flocking to The Lost Weekend. The speaker is Don Birnam (...( read more
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DVD Release Date: February 6, 2001
Stats: 402 reviews
I'm not sure whether I should cheer or cry. Here we have Ray Milland in a performance for the ages and we don't see anything else like this from him before or since. Was it just a part he could really sink his teeth into or was he not given other chances to carry a significant fi...( read more)
billy wilder adapts a much less moralistic perspective to interpret the tumultous mental odyssey of an achoholic in "the lost weekend" which gains the academy award of best actor for ray milland.
the tale whirls around don (milland), a former burgeoning genius writer who cann...( read more)
These social issue movies from the 40's really impressed me. Maybe it's cause I'm kinda naive and as I watched these award winners in roughly chronological order, it was as if I was viewing it with the eyes of the original 1945 audience. The topic and its portrayal was shocking...( read more)
A stunning film that has just as much of an impact now as it probably did back in 1945. Ray Milland is phenominal in the lead role and Billy Wilder adds yet another great film to his LONG list of accomplishments. One of my top 25 films. Everyone needs to see this.
An alcoholic's terrifying weekend alone with a bottle. Ray Milland won an Oscar for this and deserved it.
It is mentioned, in the short review of "The Lost Weekend" by Robert Horton that Ray Milland's got under the skin of the alcocholic Don Birnham in order to play the leading character. His award winning performance has it's way of getting under yours, too. The honesty of the scrip...( read more)
Really depressing film about a weekend in the life of a drunk. The thing is, I like depressing and felt this was overall a very well acted and well written film. I liked the idea of a writer who never writes anything, but the great thing about Ray Milland's towering performance (...( read more)
A very dark movie, especially for its time. It explores the struggles of an alcoholic. Ray Milland's performance was good, but besides his alcoholism, there really isn't much else going on here. It's a straight-forward storyline, with all the other characters being 1-dimensional,...( read more)
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