Days of Wine and Roses (film)

Days of Wine and Roses is a 1962 film directed by Blake Edwards with a screenplay by JP Miller adapted from his own 1958 Playhouse 90 teleplay of the same name.

Public relations man Joe Clay Jack Lemmon meets and falls in love with Kirsten Arnesen Lee Remick, a secretary. Kirsten is a teetotaler until Joe introduces her to social drinking. Reluctant at first, after her first few Brandy Alexanders, she admits that having a drink made me feel good. She had previously disdained alcohol but admitted that she loved chocolate. Despite the misgivings of Kirstens father Charles Bickford, who runs a San Mateo landscaping business, they are married and have a daughter named Debbie.Joe slowly goes from the twomartini lunch to fullblown alcoholism. It affects his work and, in due time, he and Kirsten both succumb to the pleasures and pain of addiction. Joe is demoted due to poor performance brought on by too much booze. He is sent out of town on business. Kirsten finds the best way to pass the time is to drink, and she drinks a lot. While drunk one afternoon, she causes a fire in their apartment and almost kills herself and their child. Joe eventually gets fired from the Public Relations firm and goes from job to job over the next several years. ........

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