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DVD : 28 Days (Special Edition)In association with Amazon.comstarring: Sandra Bullock, Viggo Mortensen, Dominic West, Elizabeth Perkins, Azura Skye directed by: Betty Thomas  List Price: $9.95 Amazon.com's Price: $7.99 You Save: $1.96 (20%)Prices subject to change. Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
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Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1Audience Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested) Binding: DVD Brand: Sony EAN: 9780767851268 Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Special Edition, Widescreen, NTSC ISBN: 0767851269 Label: Sony Pictures Manufacturer: Sony Pictures Number Of Items: 1 Picture Format: Anamorphic Widescreen Publisher: Sony Pictures Region Code: 1 Release Date: September 19, 2000 Running Time: 104 minutes Studio: Sony Pictures Theatrical Release Date: April 14, 2000 Sales Rank: 8629 MPN: COLD05064D Related Items:
Editorial Review: Product Description: A disastrous drunken episode lands successful new york journalist gwen cummings in rehab where she encounters a bizarre assortment of characters and unique rituals during her touching and often hilarious road to recovery. Special features: interactive menus scene selections and much more. Studio: Sony Pictures Home Ent Release Date: 05/22/2007 Starring: Sandra Bullock Viggo Mortensen Run time: 104 minutes Rating: Pg13 Director: Betty Thomas Amazon.com: To appreciate 28 Days, it's best to be thankful that director Betty Thomas hasn't forced Sandra Bullock into a remake of Clean and Sober. Instead Thomas has balanced her comedic sensibility (evident in Dr. Dolittle and Private Parts) with the seriousness of alcoholism and substance abuse, and she succeeds without compromising the gravity of the subject matter. Some critics have scoffed at the movie's breezy, formulaic portrait of 27-year-old boozer and pill-popper Gwen Cummings (Bullock), but this smooth-running star vehicle does for Bullock what Erin Brockovich did for Julia Roberts, focusing her appeal in a substantial role without taxing the limits of her talent. It's no wonder that Susannah Grant (who wrote both films) was one of the hottest new screenwriters of 1999. She writes "Hollywood Lite" without insulting anyone's intelligence. As played by Bullock, Gwen is an alcoholic in denial whose latest bender with boozer boyfriend Jasper (Dominic West) ruins the wedding of her sister (Elizabeth Perkins) and lands her in a month-long rehab program with the requisite gang of struggling drunks and junkies. Newcomer Alan Tudyk steals his scenes as a gay German rehabber who might've dropped in from a Berlin performance-art exhibit, and Steve Buscemi aptly conveys the weary commitment of a counselor who's seen it all. Thomas has surrounded Bullock with a sharp ensemble, and the addition of singer-songwriter Loudon Wainwright III (as a kind of Greek chorus crooner) is sublimely inspired. Certainly no surprises here--the warring sisters will reconcile, and at least one rehabber will fail to recover--but there's ample pleasure to be found in Bullock's finely tuned performance, and in Thomas's inclusion of flashbacks and tangents that add depth and laughter in just the right dosage. --Jeff Shannon Average Rating:
 Rating:  - Intelligent and Moving Look at Insecurity and Addictions28 Days is a fabulous movie that stirs many emotions associated with addiction, immaturity, and insecurity. Sandra Bullock plays a character that demonstrates how many perceived strong and "vibrant" people in our lives, are too often driven by hidden insecurities and emotional pain. The movie centers around a beautiful and charismatic woman about 30 years old, that has surrounded her life with equally colorful and insecure people that routinely gather and celebrate in public places, all attempting ... Read More Rating: - A movie that will provoke a good discussion on addictive behaviorsI work with adults, families, and adolescents who have addiction issues. I am always on the lookout for both new and older films who are about addiction that I can show to my clients. "28 Days" is one of those films. It chronicles the life of a alcoholic party girl Gwen (played by SAndra Bullock) and an involuntary trip to rehab that she does not take seriously at first. After she is encouraged to get drunk in rehab by her boyfriend, and nearly gets kicked out of rehab and put into jail, she begins ... Read More Rating: - A "coming of age" story of people who are learning to grow up at an older ageMoving story about not only a woman who gets thrown into rehab, but also who has repressed her feelings, her life and finds herself maturing into an adult after drinking her younger life away. When she first gets into rehab, it's not only a typical scene that one might see in a rehab facility, but also one where, since the stunting of her emotional, responsible and relationship senses are that of a young, out of control child who raised herself. Through the movie, she learns how to be alive, how to be sensitive, ... Read More Rating: - "Take Care of the Little Things"When I began watching this film, I had a sense early on that I might not like it all that much as I thought the character of Gwen and her drunken antics were somewhat overdone, until the scene where she crashes the limo. Such incidents do happen with addicts in denial and unaware of their dangerous behavior while under the influence. As the movie continued, I was impressed with how this film showed a realistic portrait of the events and situations that take place in a rehab facility. There is good humor throughout ... Read More Rating: - Addiction treated with a light and winning touch!5 STARS RIGHT OFF! Some films can be formulaic and their characters fairly predictable thus being the case in the 2000 film 28 DAYS starring Sandra Bullock.What makes this this film so appealing and so important is the correct balance with which Bullock handles her character, the alcoholic,pill addicted, made-a-mess-of-her-life (and everyone elses!)Gwen Cummings.With addiction ruining her life, Gwen enters a rehab for a mandatory 28 days after running a hijacked wedding limo into the living room of a house.She ... Read More Browse for similar items by category:
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