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The Lost Weekend

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

Rating 7.6 / 10Release November 29, 1945Runtime 101 min

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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