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Five Days Reviews

2006

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The story begins one hot summers day when Leanne Wellings is taking her two young children to visit her grandfather. She stops to buy flowers at a motorway lay-by but then inexplicably vanishes -- leaving her two small children waiting for her in her car -- lost and far from home. Her two small children then set off to find her .. Read more

Starring	Hugh Bonneville, David Oyelowo, Sarah Smart, Edward Woodward
Director	Otto Bathurst, Simon Curtis
Genres	Drama, Television

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- FIVE DAYS is five hundred times better than anything we were offered in 2006
- 41338
- - Daily Express
  - 08 Oct 2007 at 15:26
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- - 51
  - 11
  Yawn!
  
  Could've been cut (far more successfully) to a maximum of an hour and twenty minutes. Have never before spent so much time watching little or nothing ... read more »
  
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  - younglochinvar
  - 66 reviews
  - Prestatyn
  - 18 Sep 2007 at 19:59
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  SOMETHING A BIT DIFFERENT
  
  I THOUGHT THIS WAS A GOOD SERIES, AND PERSONALLY I LOVE SUPRISE ENDINGS, IT KEPT MY INTEREST RIGHT UPTO THE END
  
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  - TERRYM69
  - 10 reviews
  - 10 Nov 2011 at 11:31
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  - 0
  good story
  
  found this to be a very good story and their is some good acting if mostly from supporting actors with plenty of twists it took me a while to quess the plots ... read more »
  
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- - chasckd
  - 377 reviews
  - Telford
  - 29 Aug 2011 at 20:03
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  Good series
  
  Engagiing and very realistic. Lots of twists.
  
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  - Sheffield
  - 27 May 2010 at 13:17
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  Don't waste your time
  
  This might have been a half-decent 2-parter, instead of which we get a tedious, overlong drama which I suspect many viewers gave up halfway through. I certainly... read more »
  
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  - Borders
  - 06 Apr 2010 at 15:54
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  five days
  
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  Good, but disappointing that it was in two discs.
  
  Never saw the end, but now don't want to.
  
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  - lincoln
  - 26 Feb 2010 at 15:40
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  Mentally exhausting!
  
  Found the first disc, of the two disc thriller, to be absolutely shattering to such an extent that both my husband and I were mentally exhausted! Brilliantly ... read more »
  
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- - motherwood
  - 70 reviews
  - Cambridge
  - 25 Feb 2010 at 15:03
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  five years
  
  if you want drama without cliches, a hackneyed and predictable script and something that could have easily have been fitted into , say , three hours max of ... read more »
  
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  - London
  - 08 Jan 2010 at 10:04
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  Five Days
  
  Superb! Fast moving, gripping, - Hugh Bonneville and Janet McTeer were brilliant! Made the mistake of not realising this was a two disc film, and received only ... read more »
  
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- - bezzer
  - 3 reviews
  - Ossett
  - 21 Apr 2009 at 21:29
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  - 0
  Riveting
  
  I missed this on tv but am so glad I made the effort to view it on disc. A really good edge of the seat thriller based within modern day society and it's ... read more »
  
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  - DURSLEY
  - 16 Jan 2009 at 12:53
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  Kept me guessing
  
  A clever story, and aside from the previews, the plot keeps you guessing. Gives a fairly broad scope of different acpects of an investigation, the family, the ... read more »
  
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  - Lancaster
  - 14 Jan 2009 at 00:27
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- - 51
  - 11
  Yawn!
  
  Could've been cut (far more successfully) to a maximum of an hour and twenty minutes. Have never before spent so much time watching little or nothing ... read more »
  
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  - younglochinvar
  - 66 reviews
  - Prestatyn
  - 18 Sep 2007 at 19:59
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  - 3
  Another poor British drama
  
  I have just finished watching disc one and I will not be watching disc two. The acting is poor at best and the characters are quite unbelievably stereotypical ... read more »
  
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  - Glasgow
  - 28 Oct 2007 at 20:14
- - 10
  - 3
  Began good, but disc 2 lost it unfortunately...
  
  The story is interesting and the cd1 really got you interested and wondering... you really look forward to cd2, but then that is when the writers lost it...read more »
  
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- 485521
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  - England
  - 17 Oct 2007 at 11:07
- - 9
  - 0
  Five Days
  
  Really enjoyed the first disc with the first five episodes, However two months later I am still waiting for the secong and final disc.
  
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- - Jayne
  - 2 reviews
  - Bushey
  - 30 Nov 2007 at 16:54
- - 7
  - 0
  Grim And Not In A Good Way
  
  I guess somebody has to say this felt like it took 5 days to get through, so I guess it might as well be me...I actually enjoy a slower paced drama. I like ... read more »
  
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- - phaidon1
  - 36 reviews
  - London
  - 11 Dec 2007 at 13:03
- - 6
  - 0
  just great
  
  well this is just great a tipe of film witch you just have to keep wotching untill its finished in 5 parts disk 1 and 2 wotched one 1 day and the other one the... read more »
  
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- - bitsbobslondon
  - 11 reviews
  - Isleworth
  - 07 Nov 2007 at 21:25
- - 5
  - 0
  Oh dear!
  
  This started out so well but after 5 hours it totally fizzed out with no real explaination of the mystery. There were also simply too many coincidences to be ... read more »
  
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- 491270
- - David Dredge
  - Norfolk
  - 04 Nov 2007 at 22:27
- - 5
  - 0
  Five very drab and L-O-N-G days..
  
  This drama (ha!) actually stretches over 40 odd days not 5, and you will feel like it is more, it completely answers why us Brits are watching more and more U.S... read more »
  
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- - PaulaWestwood
  - 397 reviews
  - Ashton-Under-Lyne
  - 29 Dec 2007 at 09:51
- - 4
  - 0
  five days
  
  only seen half of this film, cannot wait to veiw second half when i receive it. it is fantastic, the best film ive seen in years
  
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- - mojo
  - 5 reviews
  - Liverpool
  - 15 Jan 2008 at 15:22
- - 3
  - 0
  V Good
  
  I missed this BBC drama and was very pleased to see it on DVD. Was a very good drama, and a very enjoyable watch.
  
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- 497125
- - Sali
  - Cardiff
  - 21 Nov 2007 at 13:47

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- Five Days
  
  The story begins one hot summers day when Leanne Wellings is taking her two young children to visit her grandfather. She stops to buy flowers at a motorway lay-by but then inexplicably vanishes -- leaving her two small children waiting for her in her car -- lost and far from home. Her two small ...