Days of Wine & Roses

(1962) Jack Lemmon, Lee Remick
Directed by Edward Blake

The Days of Wine and Roses is an agonizing portrait of an alcoholic couple played by Jack Lemmon and Lee Remick, both nominated for Academy Awards for their roles as Joe and Kirsten. The cocktail culture of the fifties and early sixties gleefully sweeps the young couple along on a sea of highballs and scotch, but as the years pass their aquaintance with the bottle becomes more than casual, developing into a dark, consuming hunger. Afraid to come to terms with their alcoholism their problem deepens into crisis, ending, as any long-time love affair with the bottle must, in tragedy. One of the darkest, most heavy handed looks at alcoholism ever brought to the screen.