28 Days (2000)
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A newspaper columnist must navigate the challenges of a rehabilitation center after a drunken night ruins her sister's wedding.
The story
Gwen Cummings, a newspaper columnist struggling with alcoholism, arrives at her sister Lily's wedding in a drunken state, where she causes a scene and crashes a limousine. Faced with the choice of jail time or 28 days in a rehabilitation center, Gwen chooses the latter. Upon entering the facility, she meets a diverse group of patients and is assigned a teenage roommate. Angry and resistant, Gwen initially refuses to participate in treatment or admit her addiction, while struggling with painful memories of her mother's overdose.
Full plot (contains spoilers)
Gwen Cummings, an alcoholic, enters a rehab center after crashing a limousine at her sister Lily's wedding. She is initially resistant to treatment, struggling with flashbacks of her mother's overdose. During visiting day, her boyfriend Jasper smuggles her painkillers, leading to a day of drinking. After Gwen falls from a window while trying to retrieve the pills and is rescued by Eddie, a famous baseball player, she finally agrees to participate in recovery. She begins to bond with her roommates, including a 17-year-old heroin addict named Andrea. Despite Jasper's attempts to undermine her sobriety, Gwen eventually reconciles with Lily and prepares a farewell skit for the group. However, after discovering Andrea has died from an overdose and Jasper causes a confrontation with Eddie, Gwen chooses to leave the facility. She eventually breaks up with Jasper, realizing he won't support her recovery, and finds a new sense of independence.
- First release year
- 2000
- Runtime (minutes)
- 104
- Production countries
- United States
- Original languages
- English
- Directors
- Betty Thomas
- Writers
- Susannah Grant · writer
- Cast and characters
- Sandra Bullock · Gwen Cummings; Viggo Mortensen · Eddie Boone; Dominic West · Jasper; Elizabeth Perkins · Lily Cummings Topton; Azura Skye · Andrea Delaney; Steve Buscemi · Cornell Shaw; Alan Tudyk · Dutch Gerhardt; Mike O'Malley · Oliver
- Genres
- comedy-drama
- Themes
- alcoholism; recovery; dysfunctional families; addiction
- Tone and mood
- light; superficial; preachy
- Premise and plot tags
- rehabilitation; alcoholism; drug addiction; family drama
- Reception
- The film received mixed to average reviews, with a 33% approval rating on Rotten Tomatoes and a 46% score on Metacritic. It was a commercial success, grossing over $62 million worldwide.
- Reported review scores
- Rotten Tomatoes · score: 33% · review count: 86; Metacritic · score: 46% · review count: 26; CinemaScore · score: B+ · scale: A to F
- Production trivia
- The film was shot in North Carolina.; The YMCA Blue Ridge Assembly in Black Mountain, North Carolina, served as the Serenity Glen rehabilitation center.; Alan Tudyk played the same character in a supporting role in the unrelated 2011 film Transformers: Dark of the Moon.
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