“The Lost Weekend” is a coming-of-age drama staring Brendan Egan (Universal Pictures’ Jem & The Holograms, Generation Iron/Apple TV’s Damien’s Gym), Chloe Lang (Nickelodeon’s LazyTown) and Henry Lynch (Showtime’s Dexter: New Blood, Netflix’s The Society) written and directed by Charlie Norton.
In the Summer of 2004, James, a teenage boy grappling with his masculinity, embarks on a weekend trip to Cape Cod. As he confronts toxic expectations about what it means to be a man, James must make a life-changing decision that will shape his future.
Director’s Vision for ‘The Lost Weekend’
When I was eighteen, I didn’t feel like I was ready for college. Struggling to keep up with the social norm, it left me ashamed of being a virgin. The summer before I enrolled at Hofstra University I embarked on a trip with some of my closest friends from high school to Cape Cod. While the objective was to lose my virginity, does losing it really define manhood? This particular week in my life would be known as my “lost weekend”.
According to Urban Dictionary, a “lost weekend” is a stretch of time of uninterrupted experimentation of drugs, alcohol and sex; with close-call moments and extreme emotional and physical pain. While my personal experiences weren’t excessive, my vulnerability was substantial.
Now at the brim of graduating college, I’m revisiting this period for the first time to seek closure. The Lost Weekend is my most ambitious project to date, but this is also the most personal I’ve ever been on film. Toxic masculinity is real and it never defined my manhood. But the journey of overcoming it discovered the man that I am today.
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