The Lost Weekend (film)

The Lost Weekend is a 1945 American film noir drama film directed by Billy Wilder and starring Ray Milland and Jane Wyman. The film was based on Charles R. Jacksons 1944 novel of the same name about an alcoholic writer. The film was nominated for seven Academy Awards and won four Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor, and Best Writing Adapted Screenplay.

Thursday An alcoholic New York writer, Don Birnam, is packing for a weekend vacation with his brother Wick, who is trying to discourage his drinking. When Dons girlfriend Helen comes to see them off, she mentions in passing that she has two tickets for a concert, to which Don urges Wick to accompany her. Don heads for Nats Bar, deliberately missing his train, and then sneaks back into the flat to drink some cheap whisky he has bought, avoiding Helen who is worried about him being left alone.Friday Back at the bar, the owner Nat criticises Don for treating Helen so badly, and Don recalls how he first met her. It was due to a mixup of cloakroom tickets at the operahouse, where he had to wait for the person who had been given his coatcheck in error. This was Helen, with whom he strikes up a romance. When he is due to meet her parents for lunch at a hotel, he loses his nerve and phones a message to her, crying off. Presently he confesses to her that he is two people Don the writer, who can only write while drunk, and Don the drunk who always has to be bailed out by his brother. Still, Helen devotes herself to helping him in his plight. Back in the present day, Don has moved on to another bar, where is caught stealing the money to pay his bill, and thrown out. In the flat, he finds a bottle he had stashed the previous night, and drinks himself into a stupor. ........

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