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Two Weeks (2007)

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Reviews Counted: 26 Fresh: 5  Rotten:21 Average Rating: 4.4/10
Rated: Not Rated
Runtime: 1 hr 42 mins
Theatrical Release: Dec 1, 2006 Limited
Synopsis:
In STEEL MAGNOLIAS, which, like this film, stars Sally Field, one of the characters says, "Laughter through tears is my favorite emotion." Like that tearjerker, TWO WEEKS is a bittersweet film that manages to make the audience alternately laugh and cry. Field stars as Anita Bergman, a mother... [More]
In STEEL MAGNOLIAS, which, like this film, stars Sally Field, one of the characters says, "Laughter through tears is my favorite emotion." Like that tearjerker, TWO WEEKS is a bittersweet film that manages to make the audience alternately laugh and cry. Field stars as Anita Bergman, a mother whose impending death from cancer draws her family together. Julianne Nicholson (FLANNEL PAJAMAS) plays her only daughter, Emily, who meets her oldest brother Keith (Ben Chaplin, THE TRUTH ABOUT CATS AND DOGS) at the airport with a self-help book in hand. The responsible brother, Barry (Tom Cavanagh, ED), and the baby of the family, Matt (Glenn Howerton, IT'S ALWAYS SUNNY IN PHILADELPHIA), soon arrive at their mother's bedside as well. With its wonderful cast, smart dialogue, and a genuine approach to grief, TWO WEEKS is a quiet film that deserves more attention than it's likely to get. It's a film that should be seen. It's a shame that Chaplin hasn't had a number of visible roles since THE TRUTH ABOUT CATS AND DOGS; here he holds his own with both Cavanagh and Oscar-winner Fields. After four seasons of ED and multiple guest appearances on SCRUBS, Cavanagh has proven his comedic mettle, and it's rarely been so clear as in this film. An hour and a half spent watching a woman die a painful death hardly seems like a fun time, but sympathetic characters and a large dose of humor make it more than bearable for the audience. [Less]

Genre: Comedies

Starring: Sally Field, Ben Chaplin, Clea DuVall, Thomas Cavanagh, Julianne Nicholson

Director: Steve Stockman
Producer: John Marias
Composer: Heitor Pereira

DVD Info

Release:

Sep 18, 2007

[DVD Details]

DVD Features:

  • Keep Case
  • Dual Side

Audio:

  • Dolby Digital 5.1 - English
  • Subtitles - English, French, Spanish - Optional

Text/Photo Galleries:

  • Additional Text - Group Discussion Guide
  • Disc 1/Side A: TWO WEEKS - Full Frame
  • Full Frame - 1.33

Additional Release Material:

  • Behind the Scenes - "TWO WEEKS: Learning to Live Through Dying"
  • Disc 1/Side B: TWO WEEKS - Widescreen
  • Widescreen - 1.85

Additional Release Material:

  • Alternate Scenes - Deleted Scenes (4)
  • Audio Commentaries - Steve Stockman - Writer/Director; Dr. Ira Byock - Author

Tracks:

  • 1. Main Titles/Remember
  • 2. Day 1/How to Die
  • 3. Morning Routine
  • 4. Checklists
  • 5. The Process
  • 6. Day 4/Instructions
  • 7. Best Friends
  • 8. Is She Dying?
  • 9. Chew and Spit
  • 10. Shut It Down
  • 11. Conversations
  • 12. Day 7/Real Life
  • 13. Hug Her
  • 14. Second Husband
  • 15. The Way it Was
  • 16. Finance and Religion
  • 17. Morphine Decision
  • 18. Don't Overthink
  • 19. Day 11/Tension
  • 20. Slipped Away
  • 21. The Letter
  • 22. Stay Close
  • 23. Day 14/Ashes
  • 24. End Titles

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Sally Field gives a brave and convincing portrayal of a woman facing death. It's a heartbreaking performance and Field attacks the mental and physical pain facing Anita with veracity.

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offers a little too much dysfunction and not enough humor for my tastes

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09/24/07 11:29 AM
Kevin Carr
7M Pictures
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TWO WEEKS offers some positive views on hospice care and tackles head-on a theme that few American features do, but it lacks the gravitas of something like the European drama THE DEATH OF MR. LAZARESCU.

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07/14/07 11:49 AM
Ted Murphy
Murphy's Movie Reviews
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An awkward hybrid of earnest weepiness and bouncy lightheartedness.

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04/03/07 11:21 AM
Nick Schager
Cinematical
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Field looks appropriately wiped out. Although given how brittle, awkward, and completely uninteresting her younger co stars are, she could just be exasperated -- she's doing all the lifting.

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03/16/07 04:33 PM
Wesley Morris
Boston Globe
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You will have to like Sally Field, you will have to really like Sally Field, to sit through Two Weeks.

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03/15/07 06:09 PM
John Maynard
Washington Post
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The movie's warm advocacy of hospice, with all the dignity such end-of-life care provides, does real, influential good.

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03/07/07 03:12 PM
Lisa Schwarzbaum
Entertainment Weekly
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A sentimental weepie about coping with death that tries to mix laughter and tears but induces only groans.

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03/03/07 01:48 PM
Frank Swietek
One Guy's Opinion
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The well-intentioned screenplay is all over the map, with many scenes too truncated to go anywhere dramatically or emotionally. Is a cancer movie that leaves you dry-eyed an oxymoron?

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03/03/07 07:43 AM
Melissa Anderson
Time Out New York
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Sally Field's flawless performance as a mother whose imminent death reunites her four grown children elevates a fairly formulaic melodrama... into something considerably more memorable.

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03/02/07 06:12 PM
Ken Fox
TV Guide's Movie Guide
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There is much to like in this poignant movie about those who leave this life and those left behind, but Two Weeks never quite pulls everything off.

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03/02/07 06:10 PM
Tom Keogh
Seattle Times
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Attempts at black humor, although not unrealistic during such a trying time, fall flat. Far worse than not laughing at the jokes, you're unlikely to be moved to tears at sad moments.

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03/02/07 06:07 PM
Ruthe Stein
San Francisco Chronicle
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Overall, TV veteran Stockman isn't terribly skillful at meshing comedy and drama.

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03/02/07 06:06 PM
Lou Lumenick
New York Post
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In the deathbed drama Two Weeks, Sally Field creates an agonizing portrait of a middle-aged American everywoman in the final stages of ovarian cancer.

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03/02/07 06:05 PM
Stephen Holden
New York Times
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In his uneven drama Two Weeks, first-time feature director Steve Stockman bravely delves into the ugly realities of dying. Unfortunately, he has no idea where to go from there.

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03/02/07 05:53 PM
Elizabeth Weitzman
New York Daily News
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Although quite touching and stitched with black humor, little of what transpires feels like it’s happening to particular people at a particular time in a particular place.

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03/02/07 05:52 PM
John P. McCarthy
Boxoffice Magazine
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... the understatement of the awkward family dynamics and complex feelings... has a quiet honesty and unsentimental dignity of its own.

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03/01/07 09:14 PM
Sean Axmaker
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
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For all the vomiting and the runny noses, Two Weeks feels a little too cozy to fully pass muster as art.

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03/01/07 03:41 PM
Jan Stuart
Newsday
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A smoothly directed story that shows without sentiment how life, for better or worse, goes on.

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03/01/07 03:54 AM
Frank Lovece
Film Journal International
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There are worse things than death to look forward to, like having to sit through The Barbarian Invasions a second time.

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02/27/07 04:27 PM
Ed Gonzalez
Slant Magazine
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