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List Price: $19.98 | | Label: Warner Bros. Pictures
Salesrank: 1590
Released: January 6, 2004 |
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MPAA Rating: Unrated
Media: DVD |
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Editorial Review:
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
Description of Days of Wine and Roses:
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
Days of Wine and Roses Reviews:
Lost Innocence... 
2009-11-28 - To say that I wish there were movies like this today is almost trite. True drama-the kind that grabs you and makes you think and feel and empathize is gone. "Days of Wine and Roses" is just such a film that will capture a wide range of emotions in the viewer.
The story seems simple enough. Man meets woman and booze and forms an unholy triangle of pain, despair, and desolation. But the way it all plays out is brilliant. It is a case study not only in addiction, but in love, whimsy, confusion, cruelty, and ultimately tragedy. Both Jack Lemmon and Lee Remick play their parts perfectly and are backed by a superb supporting cast.
There is something strangely haunting about this film. It stayed with me for a long while after I saw it. For me, watching it again is like watching it for the first time. I can't say the film is entertaining because that would cheapen it. To say it is informative would be too bland. It meets somewhere between those two points and weaves a poignant tapestry of a wide range of human emotions.
The music is beautiful and the direction is superb. This is a film that was made when drama meant something; When you felt the message and knew you had seen something extraordinary. Yes, it is that good.
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2009-11-28 - This DVD is in great shape and I have enjoyed it. Loved it years ago when it first came out and ordered it for my son who is a film major and thought he would enjoy seeing the "old" time movies.
Riveting drama!
2009-11-24 - This movie is one of my favorites with Jack Lemmon. Its a riveting drama, that you cant help become part of. You feel for the characters, you fall in love with Lee Remick. You see the love and loss in Jack Lemmon's face.
Its a beautifully acted, true to life drama that everyone should watch!
I recommend this movie 110%, you will laugh & cry all the way through the movie.It does not disappoint!
A life saver
2009-10-25 - Shortly aftert I saw this movie in 1973 I understood what was really wrong with me. My life made a significant turn in early 1974 and I have not looked back. This could change your life as well and if not it is still a very good movie.
Jack Lemmon's Oscar performance
2009-08-24 - Yeah-I know he didn't win. Yet after seeing the movie when I was only 12 and then several times more as I grew up, it still remains a mystery why he did not win the Oscar. All the reviews I have read are great, however everyone seems to forget the truly best scene. Jack breaks into a liquor store and gets caught by the owner. As he lies on the floor the owner says,"I didn't know you needed a drink that bad Pal!" and starts to pour booze from a bottle held suspended over Jack's prostate form. Jack tries to suck it down as the booze flows all over his face. I had seen that same look on my Dad's face, so I guess that's why it sticks. After seeing the movie the first time I got "scared straight". I never even started drinking. The last scene has Jack's wife visiting him in his small apartment. He had been booze free for a while and starting to put his single "Dad" life back together. His wife had forced herself to be sober just so she could talk to him. You can feel how deeply this man loves her. She leaves after admitting she has to drink because the World seems so dirty when she is sober and Jack is at the door staring after her and you see the reflection of a blinking BAR light flashing in the glass door. Scary stuff for 1962. It leaves you with the feeling of "will he or won't he".
When I was a Psych Nurse I would sometimes sneak this movie on to the unit. I would show it during group sessions. I was shocked by how many younger people claimed to think Jack Lemmon was only a comedian. Most of them (suffering from addictions) were very moved by the film.
