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82
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82
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82
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81
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80
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45
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40
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35
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28
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22
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28 Days
Sony / Columbia Pictures
FILM:
MPAA RATING: PG-13 for mature thematic elements involving substance abuse, language and some sensuality
Starring
Sandra Bullock,
Viggo Mortensen,
Dominic West,
Diane Ladd,
Elizabeth Perkins,
and
Steve Buscemi
For Gwen Cummings (Bullock), a successful New York writer living life in the fast lane, life is just an exercise in debauchery. That is, until Gwen's ungraceful display at her sister Lily's (Perkins) wedding, when she gets drunk, commandeers the limo and earns herself a DUI and 28 days in court-ordered rehab. (Columbia Tristar)
| GENRE(S): |
Drama
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| WRITTEN BY: |
Susannah Grant
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| DIRECTED BY: |
Betty Thomas
|
| RELEASE DATE: |
DVD: September 19, 2000
Video: September 19, 2000
Theatrical: April 14, 2000
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| RUNNING TIME: |
103 minutes, Color |
| ORIGIN: |
USA |

All critic scores are converted to a 100-point scale. If a critic does not indicate a score, we assign a score based on the general impression given by the text of the review. Learn more...
80
Rolling Stone
Peter Travers
Count this rehab a success.
75
New York Daily News
Jami Bernard
Not without missteps and the occasional mouthful of sugar, but it grows on you.

75
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert
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.

75
Entertainment Weekly
Owen Gleiberman
Bullock gives it her all; she's bristling and alive on screen in a way that she hasn't been since ''Speed.''

75
New York Post
Jonathan Foreman
Much less mawkish and predictable than you might expect.
70
TV Guide
Maitland McDonagh
Funny, thought-provoking and, yes, touching.

65
Mr. Showbiz
F. X. Feeney
A reliably solid treat.

63
Charlotte Observer
Lawrence Toppman
If only Hollywood studios weren't so addicted to happy, oversimplified endings, the film might leave us shaken instead of slightly stirred.

63
USA Today
Andy Seiler
Far too familiar.
60
Dallas Observer
Luke Y. Thompson
As ridiculous as it all is...it's somehow eminently watchable.

60
Film.com
Robert Horton
A reminder of why Bullock became a movie star in the first place.

58
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
William Arnold
(Bullock's) performance, and the movie's serious side, soon get lost in an overly slick script.

50
Austin Chronicle
Marjorie Baumgarten
Sympathetic to the core but not to be believed.

50
San Francisco Examiner
Wesley Morris
Needs a gritty intervention.

50
Chicago Reader
Lisa Alspector
Shows her transition to sobriety as many ensemble stories do--mainly through the development of other characters, the quirkier the better.

50
San Francisco Chronicle
Peter Stack
Mostly it seems forced, pat and didactic.

40
The New York Times
Stephen Holden
Begins with such a flurry of promise that it comes as a sharp disappointment when this drug-rehab comedy skids out of control.

40
LA Weekly
Judith Lewis
Has all the force of bubbles on air -- fun to look at, but exciting no emotion deeper than fleeting delight.

40
Newsweek
David Ansen
This is a movie afraid of its own shadows.
38
Baltimore Sun
Ann Hornaday
Bullock's character goes through some changes, but she never turns into some unrecognizably serious actress.
38
Chicago Tribune
Marc Caro
A cutesy, heavy-handed morality tale that contains nary a believable moment.
30
Village Voice
Dennis Lim
Thomas's fleet-footed approach suggests the anxious embarrassment of a director in an awful hurry to get it over with.

25
Portland Oregonian
Shawn Levy
So shapeless, pointless and witless a film that it can be explained only by surmising that the people who made it were bombed at the time.
20
Los Angeles Times
Kenneth Turan
Too glib too often to make much of an impression any way you look at it.

20
TNT RoughCut
J. Rentilly
The saddest part about 28 Days is it's more fun when it's drunk.
10
Salon.com
Charles Taylor
Not even court-ordered rehab could save this stumbling drunk of a picture.


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