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28 Days (2000)

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Reviews Counted:22

Fresh:8

Rotten:14

Average Rating:5/10

Consensus: Even though 28 Days is tackling a difficult subject, it comes off light and superficial, and maybe even a little preachy.

Runtime: 1 hr 44 mins

Genre: Dramas

Synopsis: Gwen Cummings (Sandra Bullock) is a successful New York writer living life in the fast lane and everyone's favorite party girl. She shares this roller-coaster lifestyle of hopping from dance club... Gwen Cummings (Sandra Bullock) is a successful New York writer living life in the fast lane and everyone's favorite party girl. She shares this roller-coaster lifestyle of hopping from dance club to bar to hangover with boyfriend Jasper (Dominic West) -- handsome, magnetic and equally attracted to life on the wild side. Life is just an exercise in debauchery -- until Gwen's ungraceful display at her sister Lily's (Elizabeth Perkins) wedding, when she gets drunk, commandeers the limo and earns herself a DUI and 28 days in court-ordered rehab.

There, Gwen comes face to face with a unique set of rules (like no cell phones) and rituals (like chanting) embraced by an assortment of fascinating fellow re-habbers: Eddie (Viggo Mortensen), Gerhardt (Alan Tudyk), Oliver (Michael O'Malley), Andrea (Azura Skye), Roshanda (Oscar® nominee Marianne Jean-Baptiste) and Bobbie Jean (Oscar® nominee Diane Ladd).

A jaded city girl to the core, Gwen is determined not to conform. Then she meets Counselor Cornell (Steve Buscemi), who begins to break through her carefully constructed defenses and force her to take a closer look at who she really is. Ultimately, through the companionship of her group as well as a devastating loss, Gwen gradually loses her cynicism and begins the long struggle to take back her life. Maybe, she discovers, your insides can match your outsides. [More]

Starring: Sandra Bullock, Viggo Mortensen, Dominic West, Steve Buscemi

Starring: Sandra Bullock, Viggo Mortensen, Dominic West, Steve Buscemi, Azura Skye, Marianne Jean-Baptiste, Elizabeth Perkins, Diane Ladd, Mike O'Malley, Margo Martindale, Susan Krebs, Loudon Wainwright

Director: Betty Thomas

Director: Betty Thomas
Screenwriter: Susannah Grant
Producer: Jenno Topping
Composer: Richard Gibbs

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Many of these 28 days are as pat and superficial as anything in a routine TV movie, making a frustratingly uneven film.

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This is a movie afraid of its own shadows.

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David Ansen
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Thomas's fleet-footed approach suggests the anxious embarrassment of a director in an awful hurry to get it over with.

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Dennis Lim
Dennis Lim
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28 Days may be fluff, but it's good fluff: effortless, amusing and almost touching.

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Desson Thomson
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Washington Post
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With Sandra Bullock in the lead, writer Susannah Grant (Erin Brockovich) spinning the tale, and director Betty Thomas calling the shots, it's a reliably solid treat.

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If I haven't said much about what actually happens in 28 Days it's because, trust me, you know what happens.

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Geoff Pevere
Geoff Pevere
Toronto Star
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28 Days possesses all the depth and insight of a made-for-TV movie.

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James Berardinelli
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It's going to take more than 28 Days to jump-start Sandra Bullock's stalled career.

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Jay Carr
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Boston Globe
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Sandra Bullock's best film in years -- perhaps even the best work she has ever done.

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Jonathan Foreman
Jonathan Foreman
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28 Days is too glib too often to make much of an impression any way you look at it.

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Kenneth Turan
Kenneth Turan
Los Angeles Times
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It's not bad, but it's not very good, either.

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Louis B. Parks
Louis B. Parks
Houston Chronicle
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28 Days is a cutesy, heavy-handed morality tale that contains nary a believable moment.

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Mark Caro
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Chicago Tribune
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Bullock gives it her all; she's bristling and alive on screen in a way that she hasn't been since Speed.

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Owen Gleiberman
Owen Gleiberman
Entertainment Weekly
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28 Days tries hard to be funny. Occasionally it is. But mostly it seems forced, pat and didactic.

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