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Five Days on DVD (2006)

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Average rating: (64%)
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3.0
 
Starring: Hugh Bonneville | David Oyelowo | Sarah Smart | Edward Woodward | Christine Tremarco | Janet McTeer | Penelope Wilson | Patrick Malahide
Director: Otto Bathurst | Simon Curtis
Studio: METRODOME DISTRIBUTION
Run time: 300 mins
Certificate: 15
User collections: Films with numbers in the title | little known gems
Genres: Drama | Television
Languages: English
Released: 10/09/2007

Brief synopsis of 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 children then set off to find her only to go missing themselves. Their ordeal is captured on CCTV cameras and before long the family's heart-stopping trauma is not only a complex police investigation but a major national news story.

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Critics Reviews

Daily Express

FIVE DAYS is five hundred times better than anything we were offered in 2006

The Mail On Sunday

suspenseful... one hungers for the next episode

Financial Times

Like 24... a structurally ingenious drama

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Rated - 2 starsYawn!

younglochinvar younglochinvar from Prestatyn [Highly rated reviewer] , 18/09/2007

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 happening on screen.

Much of the dialogue is irrelevant to the plot, the building of characters or their inter-relationships.

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Rated - 0 starsAnother poor British drama

A customer from Glasgow , 28/10/2007

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 from the police inspector who 'hates the media' to the annoying adolescent who 'surprise surprise' hates her stepdad.

Add to that the previews condense into 1 minute all you really need to know from the forthcoming episode and take away what little suspense their is. This should have been condensed into two episodes max as it has that 'dragged out' feeling.

BBC have come up with some good dramas but sadly this is definetly not one of them.

  12 out of 15 people found this review helpful
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Rated - 2 starsBegan good, but disc 2 lost it unfortunately...

A customer from England , 17/10/2007

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...

cd2, in the preview part, gives you a lot of info, that you could have get along seeing it yourself little by little, suspense in between.

They basically tell you what to expect in the whole new hour , so much so, that the suspense, surprise element , is somehow lost.

It was also very difficult to follow, as things didnt follow an orderly way as in the beginning. There is no connection whatsoever, with ending in cd1 to beginning cd2... really frustrating

I think the writers thought of a good story but failed to put it through in the division of cd1 and cd2.

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Rated - 4 starsFive Days

Jayne from Bushey , 30/11/2007

Really enjoyed the first disc with the first five episodes, However two months later I am still waiting for the secong and final disc.

  7 out of 7 people found this review helpful
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