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Days of Wine & Roses
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Audience Rating: Unrated
Binding: VHS Tape
EAN: 9786300269316
Format: Black & White, HiFi Sound, NTSC
ISBN: 6300269310
Label: Warner Bros. Pictures
Languages: English (Original Language), Analog
Manufacturer: Warner Bros. Pictures
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Warner Bros. Pictures
Release Date: December 09, 1994
Running Time: 118 minutes
Studio: Warner Bros. Pictures
Theatrical Release Date: December 26, 1962
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Editorial Review:
Days of Wine and Roses is one film not to watch if you are melancholic by nature, as this tale of middle-class alcoholism rings very true. Jack Lemmon and Lee Remick are the besotted couple who find that life is not always fun when viewed through rosé-colored glasses. He's the San Francisco business executive who marries Remick and seduces her into a cocktail culture that soon overpowers them both. It is not a pretty picture when their life shatters around them, but this film is extremely compelling for their performances. It is matched only by Billy Wilder's Lost Weekend and the more explicit Leaving Las Vegas. This was nominated for five Academy Awards and won for the title song by Henry Mancini and Johnny Mercer. Filmed by Blake Edwards in 1962, it is based on a Playhouse 90 television production from 1958, starring Cliff Robertson and Piper Laurie. --Rochelle O'Gorman
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - Overwrought but effectively engaging
This movie is still one of my favorites about the subject of alcoholism. (Tender Mercies is probably the best movie on this subject). The narrative arc is somewhat overwrought. The Jack Lemmon character goes into delirium tremens twice! He does this not after he goes cold turkey and as a result of withdrawal symptoms but after one night of taking up drinking again. That doesn't make sense. Lee Remick's fondness for chocolate as a precursor to possible tendencies to alcoholism I think has been pretty ... Read More
Rating:  - I have not gotten it yet!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I am still waitning for the jproducts for this order
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Rating: - PAINTS AND GRAPHIC PICTURE OF ALCOHOLISM!
I never saw this film when I was young, but I found it to be truthful for the most part, although I am not an alcoholic I have known many. I have played in bands for 30 years and even though that doesn't mean your a drunk, it does expose you to bars and a party atmosphere. I am one of the lucky ones who could drink my friends under the table, but resume a normal life the next morning.
This film paints a true picture of how hard it is to kick this habit if you truly are an alcoholic! I have ... Read More
Rating: - i knew the child actress when this was being made
at the time of the making of this film debbie mc
gowan was my best friend. i never saw the movie but know enough about it by reading the book. i wasn't allowed to see the movie. i still haven't seen it . even though i have met the actors in real life. both jack lemmon and lee remmick were really alcoholic in real life. debbie and i were not treated so well by our parents. anyway i sure would like to see her again. they always choose redheads for parts, she was really lucky. .i am anxious to rent or ... Read More
Rating: - Two comic geniuses make one of the most potent dramas ever
Until The Days of Wine and Roses, Jack Lemmon was known by moviegoers as one of the great comic actors creating three of the greatest movie comedies of the late 50's and early 60's - Mister Roberts, Some Like it Hot and The Apartment. Director Blake Edwards was known for his brilliant comedies including Operation Petticoat and Breakfast at Tiffany's.
But when the two got together it was pure drama. Add to this, Lee Remick in her first mainstream starring role.
The Days of Wine ... Read More
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