The Lost Weekend

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.

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Billy Wilder directed The Lost Weekend in 1945. See Billy Wilder's full filmography, where to start with Billy Wilder, or where to go after you've seen everything by Billy Wilder.

The Lost Weekend was released in 1945 (EN original-language production), with a runtime of 101 minutes.