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28 Days
2000
This is the story of a successful New York writer, Gwen Cummings, and her struggle with alcohol abuse. After one particular drunken outburst at her sisters wedding, she is arrested for drunk driving and sent to spend 28 days in rehabilitation. Gwen refuses to conform to the rules, but with time and patience shown to her by her .. Read more
| Starring | Sandra Bullock, Dominic West, Viggo Mortensen, Elizabeth Perkins |
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| Director | Betty Thomas |
| Genres | Drama |
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28 Days
This is the story of a successful New York writer, Gwen Cummings, and her struggle with alcohol abuse. After one particular drunken outburst at her sisters wedding, she is arrested for drunk driving and sent to spend 28 days in rehabilitation. Gwen refuses to conform to the rules, but with time and patience shown to her by her counsellor and other patients, she manages to emerge and begin a new life.
| Starring | Sandra Bullock, Dominic West, Viggo Mortensen, Elizabeth Perkins, Steve Buscemi, Azura Skye, Diane Ladd, Margo Martindale |
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| Director | Betty Thomas |
| Studio | UCA |
| Run time | DVD: 1 hr 49 mins |
| Certificate | |
| Genres | Drama |
| Language | DVD: English |
| Dubbed | German |
| Subtitles | DVD: Arabic, Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Icelandic, Norwegian, Polish, Swedish, Turkish |
| Released | DVD: 13 Apr 2004 Production year: 2000 |
| Format | DVD |
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In this sentimental drama, Sandra Bullock plays the Manhattan wild child forced into rehab after hijacking a limo at her sister's wedding and driving it into a house. Refusing to admit she has a drink problem, Sandy slowly comes to terms with her alcoholism with help from tough-but-fair guidance counsellor Steve Buscemi and the usual round of kooky Hollywood misfits. From Viggo Mortensen's womanising sports star to Dominic West's irresponsible English drunkard, there's not a single sympathetic male character. Directed by Betty Ford… sorry, Thomas, this is the kind of touchy-feely hogwash that's more likely to drive people to drink than keep them off it. Twenty-eight days? More like a life sentence.
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Gwen Cummings (Bullock) has a problem with booze. We know this because we see her dancing on a table and making a tit... read more on Time Out
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2 out of 2 people found this review helpful
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Pretty good comedy for a serious subject
Sandra Bullock does a pretty good job of playing Gwen the drunken party girl who gets herself into trouble. She is not gung ho for a treatment center, but her other option is jail. Actually, I was not sure how she avoided jail at all, and 28 days seemed too short a time for all the hilarity, action and breakthroughs in this film, but other than these things, I was really impressed with Bullock and the ensemble acting - the balance of comedy and drama. The one actor I thought over-acted was in the character of Gwen's boyfriend. He was too much, and it was a relief to see him off the screen. Viggo Mortensen is endearing as the other guy for Gwen. I would like to have seen more of them together. I think people will love the soap opera gags and the send-up of drug/alcohol treatment centers, but will also get the serious nature of the interactions in the 'chemistry' among all the characters in treatment in the film.
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2 out of 2 people found this review helpful
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Pretty good comedy for a serious subject
Sandra Bullock does a pretty good job of playing Gwen the drunken party girl who gets herself into trouble. She is not gung ho for a treatment center, but her other option is jail. Actually, I was not sure how she avoided jail at all, and 28 days seemed too short a time for all the hilarity, action and breakthroughs in this film, but other than these things, I was really impressed with Bullock and the ensemble acting - the balance of comedy and drama. The one actor I thought over-acted was in the character of Gwen's boyfriend. He was too much, and it was a relief to see him off the screen. Viggo Mortensen is endearing as the other guy for Gwen. I would like to have seen more of them together. I think people will love the soap opera gags and the send-up of drug/alcohol treatment centers, but will also get the serious nature of the interactions in the 'chemistry' among all the characters in treatment in the film.
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