28 Days (Special Edition)
by Betty Thomas
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Actor: Azura Skye, Dominic West, Sandra Bullock, Steve Buscemi, Viggo MortensenDirector: Betty Thomas
Brand: Sony
Cinematographer: Declan Quinn
Editor: Peter Teschner
Producer: Celia D. Costas
Producer: Jenno Topping
Writer: Susannah Grant
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown), Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround; English (Subtitled); English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround
Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD, NTSC, Special Edition, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: Anamorphic Widescreen, 1.85:1
Running Time: 104 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2000-09-19
Audience Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Studio: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
DVD Reviews of 28 Days (Special Edition)
DVD Review: you make it impossible to love you
Summary: 4 Stars
Before The Blind Side hit it big, Sandra Bullock was an undervalued asset. She made a lot of films, some good, some awful, but she got blamed for the failures, and never got credit for her good performances. Since winning the Oscar and then being cheated on by Jesse James, the public's sympathy has shifted 180 degrees. For a while there it was 24/7 Bullock, Bullock, Bullock on the airwaves, all day/every day. Critics like me are digging up films from the archive and going back to uncover any forgotten gems we may have missed. 28 Days is not the mother lode, it is just a load of Bullock.
Gwen Cummings: Is that available stitched on a pillow somewhere?
During filming in New York Sandra Bullock stayed in the recently departed Dennis Hopper's apartment and that alone should have inspired the young thespian. Her method of acting involved downing a triple espresso before any scene that required her character to have uncontrollable shakes. Is that how Hopper did it in Blue Velvet? Bullock is allergic to horses, but one scene of equine therapy required her to gain a horse's trust so it would allow her to bend the horse's leg. In spite of her allergies, she bent it. What a trouper.
Betty: Tonight's lecture: Are you a blackout drunk, or don't you remember?
Betty Thomas, who was an officer on Hill Street Blues, and also acted in such films as Troop Beverly Hills, has stepped behind the camera where she has directed The Brady Bunch Movie and others of that caliber. She also directed Private Parts, the bio pic about shock jock Howard Stern. She is no Orson Welles, but knows how to serve up some light hearted fare such as 28 Days.
OK, it is not so bad in a kind of made-for-TV movie, after school special, sit com level acting kind of way. A light hearted romp through rehab. It's no Leaving Las Vegas, Days of Wine and Roses, Rachael Getting Married, or When a Man Loves a Woman. Sandra Bullock has a certain ineffable charm, and the cast of characters are all kind of cute in their own peculiar ways. Alan Tudyk plays Gerhardt, an extremely odd character who improvises a strange monologue about forks in the road. He is perhaps the wackiest neighbor, the Cosmo Kramer, if you will, of 28 Days; but the ever so slightly less odd characters anchor the story.
Dominic West plays Jasper, her boyfriend, her enabler, her co dependent. The audience, and eventually Gwen Cummings can see that he is not very helpful to Gwen in her quest for sobriety. Viggo Mortensen plays Eddie Boone, a baseball player with substance abuse issues. He is your average jock, except that he is a secret soap opera fan, showing his softer side. They created a soap opera within the movie, and it was called Santa Cruz. Also a big fan of Santa Cruz was Gwen's roommate Andrea (Azura Skye). Mike O'Malley plays one of the other rehabbers, and he can currently be seen as Kurt's dad on Glee.
Steve Buscemi is in this playing a counselor called Cornell. He does an adequate job, but it is not up to the level of his Theodore Donald 'Donny' in 1998's The Big Lebowski. But bottom line, what is?
Cornell: This isn't a way to live. This is a way to die.
What We Do Is Secret (2007) Azura Skye was Casey Cola
Dodgeball - A True Underdog Story (Unrated Edition) (2004) Alan Tudyk was Steve the Pirate
Mona Lisa Smile (2003) Dominic West was Bill Dunbar
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (Widescreen Edition) (2001) Viggo Mortensen was Aragorn
Pushing Tin (1999) Mike O'Malley was Pete
The Big Lebowski (1998) Steve Buscemi was Theodore Donald 'Donny'
Private Parts (1997) Directed by Betty Thomas
The Flintstones (Collector's Edition) (1994) Elizabeth Perkins was Wilma Flintstone
The Thing Called Love (Director's Cut) (1993) Sandra Bullock was Linda Lue Linden
Wild at Heart (1990) Diane Ladd was Marietta Fortune
Lily: Gwen, you make it impossible to love you.
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