Majorthebys Charming and brutal

Comwayon A Disappointing Continuation

Ella-May O'Brien Each character in this movie — down to the smallest one — is an individual rather than a type, prone to spontaneous changes of mood and sometimes amusing outbursts of pettiness or ill humor.

Celia A great movie, one of the best of this year. There was a bit of confusion at one point in the plot, but nothing serious.

jillianpeirce "28 Days" is a good film that tells a good educational story. Gwen Cummings (Sandra Bullock) lives a fun outgoing life with her boyfriend Jasper (Dominic West). Living in the busy New York City, they are always jumping around from bar to bar and drinking at the club with friends. What makes this film so great, is that Gwen lives with a real problem of alcoholism and drug addiction. When she wakes up late for her sisters wedding, arrives drunk, and ruins the wedding cake, and other disasters unfolded, she was sentenced to 28 days in rehab, or prison. This film is not one you should let pass by because it truly does show an accurate picture of what dealing with alcoholism and drug addiction is like. The writers must have done extensive research to get an accurate portrayal of someone who struggles with both addictions. The film did a great job at showing what life is like for people in rehab centers, and touched upon real emotions that draw you into loving each character you meet. You will get a close up visual on the life of Gwen, and truly, and emotionally, connect to her character and the struggles she is going through. The friendships and bonds that Gwen forms in rehab will allow you to follow her path of rebuilding herself, and appreciate what "28 Days" is capturing. This movie allows you to learn that viewing people in a positive light can help bring out their positive personalities. It is obvious that Gwen and her sister Lily (Elizabeth Perkins) struggle to connect with one another. A line in the movie that was stated by Lily says "You make it impossible for anyone to love you." This is the best line to describe how the two sisters connect. What makes this scene so real is that Lily is strongly struggling to deal with her sisters addictions and no longer knows how to help.I would not let this movie sneak by you, as you can learn a lot about these two addictions. For a serious topic, this movie has some comedic parts that will have you laughing with the characters; But don't worry because if you are a movie crier then grab your box of tissues. You can learn a lot from Gwen and "28 Days", and I would recommend this movie to many people. For some, it may be an educational film, and others an eye opening experience for themselves.

rogermass I'm trying to figure out what people don't like about this movie. This is a really well done, reasonably accurate portrayal of an alcoholic that just needs to get set on the right recovery path and hopefully is one of the few who actually succeed. The acting and the cast are just plain great, the story is goodhearted, spiritual and honestly sends a really sensible and worthwhile message to the world. It's really clever and funny to boot. Sandra Bullock has made so many successful famous movies, maybe this one is just too nice, accurate and compassionate and got lost for lack of being sensational enough. I like several of the characters enough that I actually consider several of them iconic. They are so representative of people I have actually known it's almost scary. I LOVE this movie.

pc95 Unremarkable and cruddy, "28 Days", starts out interestingly until about 20 min into the movie. (MAJOR SPOILER) From about the point where Bullock's character enters into the AA Recovery Retreat program, the movie gets way too cliché and loses focus on the character in exchange for a cliché and poor retread of something like "One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest" . The dialog doesn't help trying alternate between poignancy, cussing, and berating, the movie became a chore to watch and I started using fast- forward quite often. A particularly uninteresting and forgettable scene written has the cast of patients spoofing dumb "soap-opera" within a movie actors. This was a pretty bad movie that had some potential but tried to mix poignancy and humor on a 50/50 failing. Bullock at least takes on a varying character from what she usually does. 5/10 and not worth your time.

blondehrtbreakr This movie should have never been marketed as a comedy. I don't remember any jokes or funny scenes. Literally.When Gwen (Sandra Bullock), checks into rehab - she would have went through at least 3-4 days of hardcore withdrawal (in the film, she vomits once and appears to have 1 or 2 panic attacks that only last a few minutes). True detox will have you on the toilet, getting sick from both ends, for days and days, no letting up. Some rehabs will medicate you to ease some of the symptoms, but you still go through it. This movie simply did NOT show the real side of what happens to an alcoholic who suddenly stops drinking, or an addict who stops using. From that point on, I couldn't take the movie seriously. Perhaps, if they HAD shown the true side of withdrawal, before jumping into the actual rehab, it would have been more of a cautionary tale.