5/5 A life saver
  by John Copes (Normal, Illinois)
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.

5/5 Jack Lemmon's Oscar performance
  by Michael Suerth (On Earth)
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.

5/5 Stunning portrait of alcoholics and resulting damages
  by Viva (So. Cal.)
I was amazed to see the usually comedic Jack Lemmon give such a powerful performance as an alcoholic who has to dry out the old-fashioned way, slip up again, dry out again, try to stay sober and raise his daughter on his own while trying at the same time to get the love of his life to become sober as well. He surely feels guilty over pushing her to drink with him in the early days of their courtship, as it led to nothing but trouble for both of them.

Lee Remick also does a fine job here as a woman who ends up unable to imagine life without alcohol, unable to face her young child, and unable to muster up the courage to gain sobriety along with her struggling husband.

Shot in stark b/w, this is a portrait of the dangers and damages of alcoholism: the shattered lives and relationships, job loss, having to go to AA meetings, and more.

1/5 DVD of Days of Wine and Roses
  by Dr. Jerry M. Francesco
The DVD was riddled with pithy comments by the director who is himself a recovering alcoholic. I found these interuptions most annoying since they
drowned out the dialogue of the movie.

5/5 Review of my life
  by Kelley Conaghan
I was deeply touched by this movie. As a recovering alcoholic, I could identify with everthing this couple went through. Jack Lemon and Leigh Remick gave stellar performances and I feel that Lemon should have won the academy award for his performance.