The Lost Weekend

1945 · 101 min · ★ 7.6 / 10 · 690 votes

Drama

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.

Cast

Ray Milland · Jane Wyman · Phillip Terry · Howard Da Silva · Doris Dowling · Frank Faylen · Mary Young · Anita Sharp-Bolster · Lilian Fontaine · Frank Orth

Director

Billy Wilder