Days of Wine and Roses
“From the days of wine and roses, finally comes a night like this.”
Blake EdwardsCast
Jack Lemmon 
Lee Remick 
Charles Bickford 
Jack Klugman 
Alan Hewitt Tom Palmer
Credits
Written by: J.P. Miller
Plot
Joe Clay, a public-relations man, and Kirsten Arnesen, a secretary, meet and marry, and Joe's heavy drinking soon becomes theirs. Over the years, their drinking destroys their jobs, their marriage and their daughter's home life. While Joe tries to get sober through Alcoholics Anonymous, Kirsten cannot. Jack Lemmon and Lee Remick star.
Sinekatalog’s take
A frank, harrowing drama about alcoholism, made by a director better known for comedy. Lemmon and Remick are devastating, and the film's last scene is one of the saddest of the 1960s.Sinekatalog’s own editorial review – not a user or critic quote.
Ratings
IMDb: 7.8 / 10 (15,309 votes)
IMDb rating and vote count from the IMDb ratings dataset (October 2026). Scores change over time.
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