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28 Days (2000)

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Reviews Counted:82

Fresh:25

Rotten:57

Average Rating:4.8/10

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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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

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

Full Review Source: San Francisco Chronicle | comment Comment
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Peter Stack
Peter Stack
San Francisco Chronicle

Sandra Bullock gives her best performance yet in 28 Days.

Full Review Source: Dallas Morning News | comment Comment
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Philip Wuntch
Philip Wuntch
Dallas Morning News

Bullock also covers herself with gratuitous comedy and predictable drama to prevent audiences from seeing the naked truth of addiction.

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Randall King
Randall King
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Rob Blackwelder
Rob Blackwelder
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Full Review Source: Denver Rocky Mountain News | comment Comment
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Robert Denerstein
Robert Denerstein
Denver Rocky Mountain News

28 Days is a reminder of why Bullock became a movie star in the first place

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Robert Horton
Robert Horton
Film.com

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.

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Robert Payne
Robert Payne
Reel.com

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.

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Scott Von Doviak
Scott Von Doviak
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28 Days tries too hard to be all things to all people.

Full Review Source: Seattle Times | comment Comment
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Sharon Pian Chan
Sharon Pian Chan
Seattle Times

A failure of form, style, content, detail, humor and emotion, the film betrays the people it hopes to portray -- workaday folks struggling to overcome addictions and start their lives anew.

Full Review Source: Oregonian | comment Comment
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Shawn Levy
Shawn Levy
Oregonian

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Stephen Holden
Stephen Holden
New York Times
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We've seen it before and better.

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Susan Granger
Susan Granger
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Eminently likable Sandra Bullock has lately shown a bizarre knack for choosing hard-to-like movies. 28 Days continues her unenviable streak .

Full Review Source: Detroit News | comment Comment
01/01/00
Susan Stark
Susan Stark
Detroit News

The story and character arcs are pure Screenwriting 101, and every time something unexpected seems poised to happen, the script reaches out, grabs it and pulls it back in line.

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01/01/00
Ted Anthony
Ted Anthony
Associated Press

On balance, it's as bland and predictable as a domestic draft beer.

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Todd Anthony
Todd Anthony
South Florida Sun-Sentinel
 
 
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