# The Lost Weekend (1945)

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**Runtime**: 101 min
**Genres**: Drama
**Directed by**: Billy Wilder
**Written by**: Billy Wilder, Charles Brackett
**Starring**: Ray Milland, Jane Wyman, Phillip Terry, Howard Da Silva, Doris Dowling, Frank Faylen

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

## Synopsis (in-house rewrite)

New Yorker meets noir if the bottle’s the only reliable narrator. A writer’s ten-day sobriety collapses as he dodges a lakeside getaway and steals into Manhattan for a four-day run on whiskey. James Stewart’s twitchy charm sells the spiral as post-war nerves meet liquid courage.

**Mood tags**: gut-punch, paranoid, raw, slow-burn

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