| The Long Weekend (O' Despair) | |
| Director: | Gregg Araki |
| Producer: | Gregg Araki |
| Starring: | Brett Vail |
| Editing: | Gregg Araki |
| Distributor: | Desperate Pictures |
| Runtime: | 87 minutes |
| Country: | United States |
| Language: | English |
| Budget: | $5,000 |
The Long Weekend (O' Despair) (stylized onscreen in lowercase) is a 1989 American low-budget drama film written, produced, edited and directed by Gregg Araki, and starring Brett Vail. The film follows three couples, one gay, one lesbian and one heterosexual, spending a weekend together.
Araki shot The Long Weekend in black and white on a budget of $5,000.
The New York Times reviewer Vincent Canby congratulated Araki for making an attractive-appearing film on a minuscule budget but found the film hard to watch. Faulting the film's "extremely self-conscious, neo-sitcom dialogue", Canby felt that Araki's ingenuity as a filmmaker was not matched by his talent.[1]
The Long Weekend (O' Despair) won the 1989 Los Angeles Film Critics Association Independent-Experimental Award.[2]