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| Days of Wine and Roses | 
| Category: Movie
Buy New: $2.99
Avg. Customer Rating:  56 reviews
Sales Rank: 10751
Media: Video On Demand
Running Time: 118 minutes
ASIN: B000I5PPMU
Theatrical Release Date: December 25, 1962
Release Date: November 8, 2008 (New: Last 30 Days)
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Customer Reviews:
 Addiction-Days of Wine and Roses March 27, 2006
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
Days of Wine and Roses is a film that AA actually consulted on. The film shows a couple who meet, fall in love, marry and have a little girl. The disease of alcoholism smacks into them like a freight train. The husband finds AA, the wife does not. The struggles of finding a basis for a relationship without alcohol are very difficult and sometimes impossible. This movie shows very clearly how alcohol is so very patient, cunning and powerful. It is an excellent movie.
Harrowing February 25, 2006
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
From the performances to the black and white film to the music, this film is a harrowing and realistic look at the ravages of alcoholism and what it can take to get sober.
 The Title Song Won Oscar: The Movie Was Good, Too September 21, 2005
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
I knew the title song before seeing the movie. Chronicles the destruction that alcohol addiction can bring to all involved. The performances by Lee Remake and Jack Lemmon were excellent. Ever drinker will see themselves. Well worth the time and the dime.
good film but quite depressing September 16, 2005
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
jack lemmon stars as 'public relations' executive,joe clay, who has a problem with the sauce due to part of his job being to 'entertain' the executives of the companies that his company handles.he meets kirsten,played by lee remick who is a goody goody,total opposite to joe.somehow they end up clicking,marry and have a child.eventually joe turns kirsten onto the drink and soon they both become slaves to the bottle.lemmon and remmick are great in their roles and deserved the recognition they got as they are both extremely believable.i would definitely recommend this to people in recovery as well as those who don't think that they have a problem as this movie shows what can happen if you take drinking to the limit.i wouldn't recommend seeing this for the first time if you are depressed as this film is quite depressing and emotionally draining.i don't mean to take anything away from this film because it is really good and probably the best about alcoholism,just be in the mood for a drama.
Graphic portrayal of the ugliness of alcoholism August 26, 2005
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
Blake Edwards Days of Wine and Roses is a sobering and gritty representation of the desperate and often unforgiving world of alcoholism. Edwards does not restrain himself in showing the utter destruction of life wrought by the bottle.
Public relations agent Joe Clay played by Jack Lemmon is an alcoholic, spawned by the rigors of entertaining his clients. He becomes enamored with the lovely Lee Remick playing secretary of one of his clients, Kirsten Arnesen. Remick, a wholesome girl and teetotaler is wooed by Lemmon and they eventually marry. As part of the arrangement Lemmon seduces her to alcohol and they both are now addicted.
The resposibility of parenthood does not curb their ugly habit and their lives quickly spiral out of control. Lemmon proceeds to lose job after job and they deteriorate into a sordid existence. They make several aborted attempts for sobriety aided by Remicks nurturing father, landscaper Ellis Arnesen played passionately by craggy veteran actor Charles Bickford.
Both Remick and Lemmon revert back to drinking with Lemmon winding up straight jacketed in a padded cell in a detox ward.
Lemmon aided by Alcoholics Anonymous sponsor Jim Hungerford played by Jack Klugman finally is able to conquer his demons and remain sober. Remick however at movies end is regretably not ready to follow the same path, foresaking both her marriage and child for the comfort of the bottle.
Both Remick and Lemmon give stark and frighteningly realistic acting performances as the unfortunate Mr. & Mrs. Clay. The scene where Lemmon tears apart his father in laws greenhouse searching for a hidden bottle of booze is particularly effective. Under Edwards steady hand, Days of Wine and Roses is the most powerful revelation of alcoholism since the gripping The Lost Weekend.
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