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.

“One of the most honest and uncompromising films ever made about addiction.” — The New York Times

“Billy Wilder’s harrowing masterpiece remains startlingly modern in its depiction of alcoholism and self-destruction.” — The Guardian

“A fearless Hollywood classic that refuses sentimentality and easy answers.” — Time Out

“The Lost Weekend shattered taboos and expanded the possibilities of what mainstream American cinema could address.” — Film Comment

“A remarkably frank and psychologically acute study of addiction.” — Chicago Reader