| | Days Of Wine And Roses DVD (3 Customer Reviews)
| Category | Warner Store DVDs, Warner Classics Movies, Dramas Videos, Comedies, Recommended, Essential Cinema, Character Study, Tear Jerker, AFI Top 100 Movie Songs, Substance Abuse | | Starring | Jack Lemmon, Jack Klugman, Charles Bickford, Jack Albertson, Lee Remick, Alan Hewitt, Debbie Megowan, Tom Palmer, Katherine Squire, Maxine Stuart | | Director | Blake Edwards | | Cinematographer | Philip H. Lathrop | | Composer | Henry Mancini | | Editor | Patrick McCormack | | Producer | Martin Manulis | | Production Designer | Joseph C. Wright | | Screenwriter | J. P. Miller |
Jack Lemmon and Lee Remick are unforgetable-and the title tune wins an Oscar(R) in Blake Edwards' searing, bittersweet study of an alcoholic couple on the rocks. Year: 1962 Director: Blake Edwards Starring: Jack Lemmon, Lee Remick, Charles Bickford This biting drama deals with a young couple's struggle with alcoholism. Blake Edwards gives Jack Lemmon plenty of room--the production is more naturalistic than the original teleplay--and he makes the best of it. The fascinating PLAYHOUSE 90 teleplay was directed by John Frankenheimer and starred Cliff Robertson and Piper Laurie. 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.
This is the only Debbie Megowan video. Stars also making their debut in this video: Tom Palmer, Katherine Squire. Days Of Wine And Roses | List Price | $19.97 (You save $5.52) | | Studio | Warner Home Video | | Orig Year | 1962 | | DVD Encoding | Region 1 | | All Time Sales Rank |  3566  | | CD Universe Part number | 6418029 | | Catalog number | 30929 | | Discs | 1 | | Release Date | Jan 06, 2004 | | Rating | Not Rated | | Running Time | 117 Minutes | | Additional Info | Widescreen | | Movie Details | B&W; Widescreen |
Days Of Wine And Roses Movie Review Average Rating: (4.3 out of 5 stars)   Alcohol
If you are a Jack Lemon and Lee Remick fan you will love this movies. Kind of sad but still a good movie.
Submitted by theresa.allen (Washington, DC) 
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 as good as it gets
It would be difficult to find a more compelling and gripping drama than Days Of Wine And Roses. Brilliant acting by Jack Lemmon, in what may be one of his best performances,and Lee Remick make this a must see film if you are a fan of either of these great stars. Masterfully directed by Blake Edwards, this is the story of a couple who are first seduced by alchol, revelling in its mystique and languishuing under its spell, and then slowly falling into the nightmare of addiction,swirling into a malestrom of nightmarish suffering as the honeymoon of its afterglow gives way to the horrific emptiness and suffering that addicts face each day. Family torn apart, careers unhinging, and each moment becoming more squalid, the story brings us to the brink of pain as we see Lemmon in gut wrenching detox in a cell room, complete with locked doors and padded walls. His life is givend hope by another addict who introduces him to A.A. As he clings to this one shot of stability, his wife, Remick, can't face the reality of her despair as she falls further and further into the abyss.
The performances are gripping, the story unforgettable and each scene brings more life to this great american masterpeice. Surely, one not to miss.
Submitted by wkaminsky (brookfield wi. usa)
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Highest peaks and unspoken devastation
This is a movie that shows the illustion
liquor, the fun, the release from the day
to day sameness, down a dark and never
ending corridor of dispair, the short
night of happiness for two young people,
changes, so dramatically, from productive
on the job, to the bottom skid row.
The saving for these two is the AA program.
This movie is for alcholics and normal
people , a real eye opener.
Submitted by zoeyye (North Dakota)
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Most human love story ever.
Submitted by mjf2 (Brigantine, NJ)
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Classic movie with excellent stars, shows the absolute worst of alcoholism. Highly recommend *****
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