The Lost Weekend
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Film19451h 41m
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- Director
- Billy Wilder
- Language
- English
- Released
- 1945-11-29
- Runtime
- 1h 41m
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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.
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