"28 Days"

Image result for 28 days film review28 Days is a 2000 American comedy-drama film directed by Betty Thomas.Sandra Bullock plays Gwen Cummings, a newspaper columnist obliged to enterrehabilitation for alcoholism. The film costars Viggo Mortensen, Dominic West,Elizabeth Perkins, Steve Buscemi and Diane Ladd.
Gwen Cummings spends her nights in a drunken haze with her boyfriend Jasper. She ruins her sister's wedding by showing up late, delivering a drunken, rambling speech, and knocking over the wedding cake. Intoxicated, Gwen steals a limosine from the reception, tries to locate a cake store, and winds up crashing into a house after losing control of the car. She is given a choice between jail or 28 days in a rehab center. She chooses rehab. However, she is extremely resistant to taking part in any of the treatment programs they have to offer, refusing to admit that she is an alcoholic.
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Gwen is introduced to a variety of patients while in treatment: Oliver (a hypersexual cocaine addict), Daniel and Roshanda (alcoholics), and Cornell, the director of the rehab facility (a recovered drug addict and alcoholic). She eventually befriends her roommate, Andrea, a heroin addict who sporadically self-harms.
One night, Gwen tosses her bottle of smuggled painkillers out the window, and in a moment of weakness attempts to climb out her window and retrieve them. She falls, severely spraining her ankle, and is rescued by Eddie, a baseball player and fellow addict. The two become friends.
Jasper proposes to Gwen on one of his visits to the rehab, even bringing champagne to celebrate. Gwen however, with her new-found sobriety, throws the champagne away. Towards the end of her stay, she starts to see her sister and they revisit the memories of their mother who was an alcoholic. Though the tension between them remains bitter, Gwen commits herself to restoring their relationship after Andrea relapses and dies of an overdose. The two sisters reconcile and Gwen leaves treatment. Jasper tries to rekindle their relationship, but makes no attempt to adjust to her needs and abstentions as a recovering addict. Gwen comes to terms with the fact that she and Jasper are too different now, and she starts to see that recovery, though an everyday struggle, might be attainable.

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