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28 Days (film)

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28 Days
Theatrical release poster
Directed byBetty Thomas
Written bySusannah Grant
Produced byJenno Topping
Starring
CinematographyDeclan Quinn
Edited byPeter Teschner
Music byRichard Gibbs
Production
companies
Distributed byColumbia Pictures (through Sony Pictures Releasing)
Release dates
  • April 6, 2000 (2000-04-06) (premiere)
  • April 14, 2000 (2000-04-14) (United States)
Running time
104 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Budget$43 million[1]
Box office$62.2 million[1]

28 Days is a 2000 American comedy-drama film directed by Betty Thomas and written by Susannah Grant. Sandra Bullock stars as Gwen Cummings, a newspaper columnist obliged to enter rehabilitation for alcoholism. The film costars Viggo Mortensen, Dominic West, Elizabeth Perkins, Azura Skye, Steve Buscemi, and Diane Ladd.

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Plot

Gwen Cummings is an alcoholic who spends her nights in a drunken haze with her boyfriend, Jasper. They arrive late and disheveled to her sister Lily's wedding, where Gwen knocks over the wedding cake and drunkenly steals a limousine, crashing into a house. Given a choice between jail time or 28 days in a rehab center, she chooses rehab.

Gwen is introduced to a variety of patients: hypersexual cocaine addict Oliver, former doctor Daniel, mother of two Roshanda, older addict Bobbi Jean, and Dutch immigrant Gerhardt, and is assigned as roommate to teenage heroin addict Andrea. Angry and resistant, Gwen refuses to take part in treatment or admit she is an alcoholic. Throughout this, Gwen struggles with flashbacks of her addict mother, who died of an overdose when Gwen and Lily were children.

On visiting day, Jasper slips Gwen a bottle of painkillers and they sneak off for an inebriated day together. Cornell, the facility’s director and a recovering addict himself prepares to kick Gwen out to serve her jail sentence, but she still denies that she has a problem. Storming back to her room, she takes one of her smuggled pills, but spits it out and tosses the bottle out of her third-story window. After spending the day suffering withdrawal symptoms alone, she climbs out of the window to retrieve the pills. She falls, severely sprains her ankle, and is rescued by Eddie, a new patient.

Finally convinced that she has a problem, Gwen asks Cornell for another chance and begins to participate in the recovery process. Jasper visits and proposes to Gwen with champagne, which she throws in the lake. Returning to her room, she stops Andrea from cutting herself, and grows closer to her and their fellow addicts, who warn that Jasper does not take her sobriety seriously. Gwen learns that Eddie is a professional baseball player, and they share an impulsive kiss but form a friendship instead. Discovering that he is a fan of Santa Cruz, Andrea’s favorite soap opera, Gwen and the group begin watching it together.

Lily attends a group therapy session, revealing that a drunken Gwen ruined her wedding with a humiliating speech, and leaves in disgust when Gwen dismisses Lily’s feelings. Andrea will soon be released, and Gwen arranges a farewell skit for the group to perform. Jasper shows up unannounced, and finds Gwen with Eddie; picking a fight, he insults them both and Eddie punches him, straining his friendship with Gwen. She discovers Andrea dead in their bathroom from an overdose and commits herself to restoring her relationship with her sister. They reconcile and Gwen leaves the facility after completing her course of treatment, but not before Eddie warns her that Jasper is dangerous to her sobriety.

Jasper offers to make amends, but Gwen realizes he is unwilling to change to support her recovery. Leaving him and their old party friends at a bar, she encounters a horse on the street and can lift its hoof on her second try, an activity she struggled with in rehab. She breaks up with Jasper and is later reunited with a sober Gerhardt at a floral shop. In a mid-credits scene, Eddie recognizes an actor from Santa Cruz who arrives as a new patient.

Cast

Production

The film was shot in North Carolina.[3] The YMCA Blue Ridge Assembly in Black Mountain, North Carolina, served as the Serenity Glen rehabilitation center.[4]

Reception

The film opened at number two at the United States box office making $10,310,672 in its opening weekend in 2,523 screens, behind Rules of Engagement, which was on its second consecutive week at the top spot. The film went on to make $37,035,515 in the U.S. The film made a total of $25,163,430 internationally, bringing its worldwide total to $62,198,945.[5]

Critical response

On Rotten Tomatoes, the film has a 33% approval rating based on 86 reviews with an average rating of 4.9/10. The website's consensus states: "Even though 28 Days is tackling a difficult subject, it comes off light and superficial, and maybe even a little preachy."[6] On Metacritic it has a score of 46% based on reviews from 26 critics, indicating "mixed or average reviews".[7] Audiences surveyed by CinemaScore gave the film a grade "B+ " on the scale of A to F.[8]

Peter Travers of Rolling Stone gave it a positive review and wrote: "Count this rehab a success."[9] Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times wrote: "Bullock 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."[10]

Stephen Holden of The New York Times said it "begins with such a flurry of promise that it comes as a sharp disappointment when this drug-rehab comedy skids out of control."[11] Kenneth Turan of the Los Angeles Times called it "Too glib too often to make much of an impression any way you look at it."[12]

Music

Singer-songwriter Loudon Wainwright III, who plays one of the center's patients, contributed four songs to the soundtrack.

References

  1. ^ a b "28 Days". Box Office Mojo. Archived from the original on 5 October 2010. Retrieved 2010-09-29.
  2. ^ Saraiya, Sonia (July 7, 2014). "Alan Tudyk on never playing the same role twice—except that one time". The A.V. Club. Retrieved July 7, 2021. Confession: The same role I did in 28 Days, with Sandra Bullock—I did it in Transformers. His name was Dutch, but I said: He's the same guy. Not only does he kind of seem like the same guy—he's the absolute same guy.
  3. ^ Hepola, Sarah (April 14, 2000). "Party Girl, Interrupted". Austin Chronicle. the film was shot while the leaves were turning in Asheville and Wilmington, North Carolina
  4. ^ David Agnew (June 7, 2021). "Movies Set or Filmed in or Near the Smokies". TheHollywoodNews.com.
  5. ^ "Box Office/business for 28 Days (2000)". imdb.com. Archived from the original on 14 July 2010. Retrieved July 10, 2010.
  6. ^ "28 Days (2000)". Rotten Tomatoes. Fandango Media. Archived from the original on September 15, 2020. Retrieved July 3, 2021.
  7. ^ "28 Days". Metacritic.
  8. ^ "28 DAYS (2000) B+". CinemaScore. Archived from the original on 2018-12-20.
  9. ^ Travers, Peter (14 April 2000). "28 Days". Rolling Stone.
  10. ^ Ebert, Roger (2000). "28 Days". Chicago Sun-Times.
  11. ^ Stephen Holden (April 14, 2000). "'28 Days': Your Life's a Soggy Mess? Well, Thanks for Sharing". The New York Times.
  12. ^ Kenneth Turan (14 April 2000). "A Comedy About Rehab? Not Really". Los Angeles Times.

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