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List Price: $9.95 Our Price: $8.49 You Save: $1.46 Features • Anamorphic • Closed-captioned • Color • Dolby • DVD-Video • Special Edition • Widescreen • NTSC In Theaters : 14 April, 2000 DVD Release : 19 September, 2000 |
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28 Days (Special Edition) description 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 compromisi ... review details |
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| ♥♥♥♥♥ | 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 had previously made a complete fool of herself at her sister's wedding by falling backside into the three tiered wedding cake! Bullock allows Gwen to go through all of the stages of denial, regret and final acceptance of her disease with comedic touches and true pain showing both sides of addiction recovery as they are: the blunt reality that you have hit bottom and you may die, but on the other hand "Keep it simple stupid" and "Easy does it.One day at a time." In other hands, this movie about such a serious and life threatening condition might become overly serious,preachy or maudlin; but director Betty Thomas trusts Bullock with the Susannah Grant screenplay to keep Gwen from becoming a joke OR a model of sobriety. If I had to choose one film that treats addiction without depressing the viewer to no end, then it would be 28 DAYS. Other excellent films such as MY NAME IS JOE, CLEAN AND SOBER, FACTORY GIRL,RAY, AFFLICTION and even NUTS, although completely wonderful films in their own rights, are very heavy handed and can be quite depressing. 28 DAYS embraces the grave subject with a lighter touch that does not bring down the viewer.(REMEMBER: Movies can inform and STILL be entertaining!) The viewer is uplifted and given hope amidst the rocky road to recovery. This is a highly recommended movie on the subject of addiction whether you are an addict, a counselor, someone in 12-step recovery, or someone affected by an addicts behavior. |
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