28 Days (2000)
Average Rating: 4.8/10
Reviews Counted: 83
Fresh: 26 | Rotten: 57
Even though 28 Days is tackling a difficult subject, it comes off light and superficial, and maybe even a little preachy.
Average Rating: 4.9/10
Critic Reviews: 24
Fresh: 9 | Rotten: 15
Even though 28 Days is tackling a difficult subject, it comes off light and superficial, and maybe even a little preachy.
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Movie Info
In this romantic comedy, a journalist who's become too much the life of the party finds a new lease on life in a drug and alcohol treatment center. New York newspaper columnist Gwen Cummings (Sandra Bullock) has a fondness for liquor, a boyfriend (Dominic West) with a similar taste for the bottle, and a party girl image that camouflages plenty of emotional baggage. At the wedding of her sister (Elizabeth Perkins), Gwen's pursuit of a good time goes a bit too far when she topples the wedding cake
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Cast
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Sandra Bullock
Gwen Cummings -
Viggo Mortensen
Eddie -
Dominic West
Jasper -
Diane Ladd
Bobbie Jean -
Elizabeth Perkins
Lily -
Steve Buscemi
Counselor Cornell -
Alan Tudyk
Gerhardt -
Mike O'Malley
Oliver -
Azura Skye
Andrea -
Reni Santoni
Daniel -
Marianne Jean-Baptis...
Roshanda -
Margo Martindale
Betty -
Jim Moody
Chauffer -
Loudon Wainwright II...
Guy with guitar
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All Critics (106) | Top Critics (31) | Fresh (26) | Rotten (57) | DVD (14)
28 Days is a cutesy, heavy-handed morality tale that contains nary a believable moment.
Top CriticBullock brings a kind of ground-level vulnerability to 28 Days that doesn't make her into a victim but simply into one more suitable case for treatment.
It's going to take more than 28 Days to jump-start Sandra Bullock's stalled career.
Strong rehab story for mature high schoolers.
28 Days contains Sandra Bullock's best performance...it's just too bad the film itself isn't up there with her.
An off-kilter collection of shallowly observational postcards from the edge... [that's] more a laundry list of emotional checkpoints than a sustained, compelling narrative.
An underrated actress, Bullock capably fulfills the demands of her role as a pill-popping drunk. But the story never allows Bullock to escape the comfort zone of a romantic comedy.
An out-of-control young woman who is in denial is forced to finally confront her multiple addictions.
Plays it pretty safe for the most part, but it does give you a hint of what goes on in the real world.
28 Days starts out on the wrong foot by attempting to milk far too many laughs from Gwen's sloppy-drunk behavior.
Its effort to be both a rollicking farce and a dark drama of alcoholism doom it to a certain failure from the get-go.
The result is a hard-knocks movie whose edges are smoothed away to please an addiction to happy endings.
None of the characters are particularly engaging, not even Bullock.
Un mensaje que por momentos quiere ser profundo y reflexivo pero que, desafortunadamente, se queda en el intento
Betty Thomas' amiable little rehab romantic dramedy 28 Days may aspire to be more, but it's clearly another member of this disingenuous movie family.
With a script by Susannah Grant written as if in bumper stickers, fortune cookies and Oprah transcripts, 28 Days is the kitchen-sink rehab flick.
We are a long way here from One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest.
Bullock also covers herself with gratuitous comedy and predictable drama to prevent audiences from seeing the naked truth of addiction.
On balance, it's as bland and predictable as a domestic draft beer.
Audience Reviews for 28 Days
Super Reviewer
Good film! Sandra Bullock did an amazing job at one of her earlier films as an actress. 28 Days" is one of the most accurate movies about alcoholism and drug addiction I can remember. The film does not glamorize or poke fun at its thematic content, but instead shimmers in truth depicting the problems in which a nowhere life can lead.This movie teaches us lessons through its characters. And the lessons are well taught. Recommended to all.
After getting into a car accident while drunk on the day of her sister's wedding, Gwen Cummings is given a choice between prison or a rehab center. She chooses rehab, but is extremely resistant to taking part in any of the treatment programs they have to offer, refusing to admit that she has an alcohol addiction. After getting to know some of the other patients, Gwen gradually begins to re-examine her life and see that she does, in fact, have a serious problem. The path to recovery will not be easy, and success will not be guaranteed or even likely, but she is now willing to give it a try.
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