Review of Days of Wine and Roses (1963) by Susan P — 19 Nov 2009
Holy cow. Heartbreaking story of a love triangle - a man, a woman and booze. Amazing performances from Jack Lemmon and Lee Remick as a married couple who become hardcore alcoholics. Lemmon has the showier role - he trashes a greenhouse searching for a hidden bottle, rolls around in dirt, cries, breaks into a bar, repeatedly is hauled off and thrashes about in padded rooms in a straitjacket.
Jack Klugman shows up and gets him to go to AA, and he gets sober, but his wife isn't on board and sucks him into relapse. She won't admit she's an alcoholic, even after setting the house on fire by accident and holing up in a seedy motel full of empty bottles and sleeping around night after night to get more free booze.
It's sad and realistic, although it's definitely 1962 most of it is the same then as it is now. Great film.
This review of Days of Wine and Roses (1963) was written by Susan P on 19 Nov 2009.
Days of Wine and Roses has generally received very positive reviews.
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