Amazon.com essential video: 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
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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 ... Read More
Rating: - I have not gotten it yet!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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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 ... 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 . ... 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 ... Read More
- Overwrought but effectively engaging
- I have not gotten it yet!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!