Days of Wine and Roses
From the days of wine and roses, finally comes a night like this.
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DVD Details
- Rated: Not Rated
- Run Time: 1 hours, 57 minutes
- Video: Black & White
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: November 9, 2010
- Originally Released: 1962
- Label: Warner Home Video
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Jack Lemmon & Lee Remick | |
Performer: | Jack Klugman, Charles Bickford, Alan Hewitt, Maxine Stuart, Tom Palmer, Debbie Megowan & Jack Albertson | |
Directed by | Blake Edwards | |
Edited by | Patrick McCormack | |
Screenwriting by | J.P. Miller | |
Composition by | Henry Mancini | |
Art Direction by | Joseph C. Wright | |
Produced by | Martin Manulis | |
Director of Photography: | Philip H. Lathrop |
Major Awards:
Academy Awards 1962 -
Best Original Song: Henry Mancini & Johnny Mercer
Entertainment Reviews:
Rating: A- --
Except for the (fake) ending, this is one of Hollywood's best films about the devastating effects of alcoholism, going beyond Wilder's Lost Weekend, and proficiently helmed by Blake Edwards just before the Pink Panther films changed completely his career
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EmanuelLevy.Com
The movie plays like an extended ad for Prohibition, three decades after it ended.
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New Yorker
Rating: 5/5 --
Grim, strong drama about alcoholism with Lemmon and Remick's stellar work.
Video-Reviewmaster.com
Rating: A+ --
Days of Wine and Roses (1962) is the intense dramatic portrayal of an alcoholic, co-dependent couple. The film's poster describes its intriguing premise: "It is Different. It is Daring. Most of All, in Its Own Terrifying Way, It is a Love Story."
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AMC Filmsite
Rating: 5/5 --
Hollywood doesn't make 'em like this anymore.
ColeSmithey.com
Jack Lemmon, hitherto chiefly identified with comedy roles, establishes himself as an actor of impressive range in this tough-minded Hollywood drama about alcoholism.
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Maclean's Magazine
Days is a tract, my friend, a folded brochure of a film, rescued by Jack Lemmon's charm and some good dark camerawork.
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Patheos
Product Description:
Blake Edwards's disturbing adaptation of J.P. Miller's PLAYHOUSE 90 story, starring Jack Lemmon as Joe Clay, remains an anomaly in a body of work largely devoted to comedy. Clay, a San Francisco public relations man who likes to hoist a few, meets secretary Kirsten Arnesen (Lee Remick), who doesn't drink, and after a short time they marry. After a few more months, Kirsten is able to put away as much liquor as her husband. As the years pass, Joe loses one job after another and his wife neglects their child until he begins to realize that both of them are alcoholics. They move into her father's (Charles Bickford) nursery to dry out, but following a couple of weeks of sobriety, they go on a binge. Joe nearly destroys a greenhouse in a fanatical search for a bottle and ends up in hospital ward. Former alcoholic Jim Hungerford (Jack Klugman) tries to persuade Joe to join an organization ro help deal with his problem, but Kirsten coaxes him back to the bottle. Lemmon is at his best and Remick has rarely been better in this shattering portrait of a couple consumed by addiction. Refreshingly free of the moralistic clichés of this genre, its depiction of the glamor enjoyed by drinking in previous decades throws light on the ease with which many were able to slide into oblivion.