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An alcoholic writer, Don Birnam (Milland), leads a tough existence in New York City. His girlfriend, Helen (Creator/JaneWyman), is one of the few people out there who can hopefully lead him on the straight and narrow. However, Don's personal life has been at a crossroads due to his insecurities. After ditching his brother's suggestion for a weekend in the country, Don begins a long drinking binge, the titular "lost weekend". Of course, the more he drinks, the closer it may be to his last one...
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An alcoholic writer, Don Birnam (Milland), leads a tough existence in New York City. His girlfriend, Helen (Creator/JaneWyman), is one of the few people out there who can hopefully lead him on the straight and narrow. However, Don's personal life has been at a crossroads due to his insecurities. After ditching his brother's suggestion for a planned weekend in trip to the country, country with Helen and his brother Wick (Phillip Terry), Don begins a long drinking binge, the titular "lost weekend". Of course, the more he drinks, the closer it may be to his last one...
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A 1944 novel by Charles R. Jackson, ''The Lost Weekend'' entered into PopCulturalOsmosis once [[TheFilmOfTheBook the film version]] was released the following year. Directed and co-written by Creator/BillyWilder and starring Creator/RayMilland, the film won four [[UsefulNotes/AcademyAward Oscars]], including Best Picture. Music/MiklosRozsa provided the film's score, notable for its prominent use of {{Theremin}}.
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A 1944 novel by Charles R. Jackson, ''The Lost Weekend'' entered into PopCulturalOsmosis once [[TheFilmOfTheBook the film version]] was released the following year. Directed and co-written by Creator/BillyWilder and starring Creator/RayMilland, the film won four [[UsefulNotes/AcademyAward Oscars]], UsefulNotes/{{Academy Award}}s, including Best Picture. Music/MiklosRozsa provided the film's musical score, notable for its prominent use of {{Theremin}}.
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Besides Best Picture, ''The Lost Weekend'' won [[UsefulNotes/AcademyAward Oscars]] Oscars for Best Picture, Best Director for Billy Wilder, (Wilder), Best Actor for Milland, (Milland), and Best Adapted Screeplay for Wilder (Wilder and Charles Brackett.Brackett). The film also took the Grand Prix at Cannes (forerunner to the UsefulNotes/PalmeDOr) and is on the UsefulNotes/NationalFilmRegistry.
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* PinkElephants: A particularly terrifying use of this trope, as Don hallucinates a bat swooping in and eating a mouse in the wall. Unlike many films, which have people seeing their Pink Elephants during their drunken binges, this one gets it right, and has Don seeing his mice and bat ''after'' his spree, when he's going through withdrawal.
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** Particularly terrifyinguse of this trope, example, as Don hallucinates a bat swooping in and eating a mouse in the wall. Unlike many films, which have people seeing their Pink Elephants during their drunken binges, this one gets it right, and has Don seeing his mice and bat ''after'' his spree, when he's going through withdrawal.
** Particularly terrifying
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* OneSceneWonder: Bim, a nurse who gives a monologue mocking Don and laying out the dangers of alcoholism.
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* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: Gloria, the girl at Nat's Bar who likes Don, is strongly implied to be a prostitute. She keeps meeting total strangers at Nat's for dates, and she tells Don that she broke "a business date" to see him.
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%% * GettingCrapPastTheRadar: Gloria, GettingCrapPastThe Radar: Due to overwhelming and persistent misuse, GCPTR is on-page examples only until 01 June 2021. If you are reading this in the girl at Nat's Bar who likes Don, is strongly implied future, please check the trope page to be a prostitute. She keeps meeting total strangers at Nat's for dates, and she tells Don that she broke "a business date" to see him.make sure your example fits the current definition.
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* UnfamiliarCeiling: Don awakes at the alcoholic ward after his StaircaseTumble, wondering where exactly he is. The first thing he sees is the unfamiliar ceiling.
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* UnfamiliarCeiling: WakingUpElsewhere: Don awakes at the alcoholic ward after his StaircaseTumble, wondering where exactly he is. The first thing he sees is the unfamiliar ceiling.
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* AdaptationalSexuality: The film differs significantly from the book by leaving out the novel's noted homosexual overtones, namely the strong implication that Don Birnam (as was the book's author, Charles Jackson) is a closeted homosexual.
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* {{Bookends}}: The film opens with a shot of the Manhattan skyline and then pans over to Don's apartment window. The last scene is an exact reversal of that sequence.
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* {{Bookends}}: BookEnds: The film opens with a shot of the Manhattan skyline and then pans over to Don's apartment window. The last scene is an exact reversal of that sequence.
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''The Lost Weekend'' won [[UsefulNotes/AcademyAward Oscars]] for Best Picture, Best Director for Billy Wilder, Best Actor for Milland, and Best Adapted Screeplay for Wilder and Charles Brackett. It The film also took the Grand Prix at Cannes (forerunner to the UsefulNotes/PalmeDOr) and is on the UsefulNotes/NationalFilmRegistry.
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''The Lost Weekend'' won [[UsefulNotes/AcademyAward Oscars]] for Best Picture, Best Director for Billy Wilder, Best Actor for Milland, and Best Adapted Screeplay for Wilder and Charles Brackett. It also took the Grand Prix at Cannes and (forerunner to the UsefulNotes/PalmeDOr) and is on the UsefulNotes/NationalFilmRegistry.
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''The Lost Weekend'' won [[UsefulNotes/AcademyAward Oscars]] for Best Picture, Best Director for Billy Wilder, Best Actor for Milland, and Best Adapted Screeplay for Wilder and Charles Brackett. It also took the [[UsefulNotes/PalmeDOr Grand Prix]] Prix at Cannes and (forerunner to the UsefulNotes/PalmeDOr) and is on the UsefulNotes/NationalFilmRegistry.
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* StaircaseTumble: Don loses his ballance on the stairs to Gloria's apartment and tumbled all the way down.
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** Lampshaded by "Bim", the nurse at the Bellevue drunk ward:
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* BattleaxeNurse: "Bim" is a rare male example. He's openly contemptuous of Don and the other patients, and takes a sadistic delight in describing what he has to look forward to from the [=DTs=].
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* BattleaxeNurse: "Bim" is a rare male example. He's openly contemptuous of Don and the other patients, and takes a sadistic delight in describing what he has to look forward to from the DTs.[=DTs=].
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-->'''"Bim"''': You know that stuff about pink elephants? That's the bunk. It's little animals! Little tiny turkeys in straw hats. Midget monkeys coming through the keyholes. See that guy over there? With him it's beetles. Come the night, he sees beetles crawling all over him.
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An alcoholic writer, Don Birnam (Milland), leads a tough existence in New York City. His girlfriend, Helen (Jane Wyman), is one of the few people out there who can hopefully lead him on the straight and narrow. However, Don's personal life has been at a crossroads due to his insecurities. After ditching his brother's suggestion for a weekend in the country, Don begins a long drinking binge, the titular "lost weekend". Of course, the more he drinks, the closer it may be to his last one...
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An alcoholic writer, Don Birnam (Milland), leads a tough existence in New York City. His girlfriend, Helen (Jane Wyman), (Creator/JaneWyman), is one of the few people out there who can hopefully lead him on the straight and narrow. However, Don's personal life has been at a crossroads due to his insecurities. After ditching his brother's suggestion for a weekend in the country, Don begins a long drinking binge, the titular "lost weekend". Of course, the more he drinks, the closer it may be to his last one...
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* GrayRainOfDepression: It's pouring out when Don, hitting bottom, steals Helen's coat, which he pawns. For a gun.
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* GrayRainOfDepression: It's pouring out when Don, hitting bottom, steals Helen's coat, which he pawns. For a gun. [[DrivenToSuicide To use on himself]].
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* BathroomStallOfOverheardInsults: Don overhears Helen's father talk unfavorable of him in the hotel lobby. Cue INeedAFreakingDrink.
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* BathroomStallOfOverheardInsults: Don overhears Helen's father talk unfavorable unfavorably of him in the hotel lobby. Cue INeedAFreakingDrink.
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* MostWritersAreWriters: Don is a frustrated author with writers' block. Whether the inability to write has exacerbated his drinking or his drinking has robbed him of the ability to write is unclear.
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* MostWritersAreWriters: Don is a frustrated author with writers' block. Whether the inability to write has exacerbated his drinking or his drinking has robbed him of the ability to write is unclear.unclear, although the book's homosexual incident is the definite cause of this.
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* MoralGuardians: On both ends: the liquor industry tried to sway Paramount from releasing the film, allegedly even going as far to bribe Billy Wilder. On the other hand, the more traditional folks tried to keep it from release for fears it would encourage drinking.
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* ExtremelyShortTimespan: The title isn't random; the whole movie, minus the flashback sequence, takes place as Don goes on a bender over a long weekend, starting on Thursday afternoon.
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* ExtremelyShortTimespan: The title isn't random; the whole movie, minus the flashback sequence, takes place as Don goes on a bender over a long weekend, starting on Thursday afternoon.