Rent Days of Wine and Roses (1962)
3.8 of 5 from 90 ratings
1h 52min
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- Synopsis:
- A couple caught in alcoholism's web. A San Francisco public-relations hotshot is a "social" drinker... who never stops socialising. His vivacious wife starts drinking to keep him company. They live for good times. But eventually good times turn bad.
- Actors:
- Jack Lemmon, Lee Remick, Charles Bickford, Jack Klugman, Alan Hewitt, Tom Palmer, Debbie Megowan, Maxine Stuart, Jack Albertson, Leon Alton, Don Anderson, Carl Arnold, Roger Barrett, Russ Bender, Mary Benoit, Gail Bonney, Lynn Borden, Dick Crockett, Russell Custer, George DeNormand
- Directors:
- Blake Edwards
- Voiced By:
- Mel Blanc
- Writers:
- J.P. Miller
- Others:
- Henry Mancini, Joseph Wright, Daniela Rocca, Johnny Mercer, George James Hopkins, Don Feld
- Studio:
- Warner
- Genres:
- Classics, Drama
- Collections:
- All the Twos: 1902-62, BAFTA Nominations Competition 2024, BAFTA Nominations Competition 2025, BAFTA Nominations Competition 2026, Cinema Paradiso's 2022 Centenary Club, Cinema Paradiso's 2025 Centenary Club: January - March, Getting to Know: Will Ferrell
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Reviews (1) of Days of Wine and Roses
Joining the Party - Days of Wine and Roses review by griggs
I'd always had Blake Edwards down as a poor man's Billy Wilder. Then he does this. Bloody hell.
After filming, Edwards and Jack Lemmon sat down to dinner and wondered how many drinks they'd already had. Two big drinkers, fresh off a film about alcoholism. Edwards later stopped drinking.
The early laughs matter, because I liked these two before the bottle got to them. Lemmon is dangerously charming, and I can see why Lee Remick's Kirsten joins the party. I reckon Joe encourages her drinking to reassure himself: a drinking partner makes his own habit easier to excuse.
The disease of alcoholism turns that companionship into mutual enabling. Watching them help each other get worse is painfully familiar. Remick is every bit his equal, and her desperation is horribly human.
The trouble is, the script keeps tallying Joe's lost jobs, like someone handing me the minutes of his decline. I'd rather see more of the damage unfold.
I came for Lemmon and left needing a minute.
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