28 Days (film)

28 Days is a 2000 American comedydrama film directed by Betty Thomas. Sandra Bullock plays Gwen Cummings, a newspaper columnist obliged to enter rehabilitation for alcoholism. The film costars Viggo Mortensen, Dominic West, Elizabeth Perkins, Steve Buscemi, and Diane Ladd.

Gwen is introduced to a variety of patients while in treatment Oliver Mike OMalley a hypersexual cocaine addict, Daniel Reni Santoni and Roshanda Marianne JeanBaptiste alcoholics, Bobbi Jean Diane Ladd and older addict, Gerhardt Alan Tudyk a gay man whose addiction is not specified, and Cornell Steve Buscemi, the rehab facilitys director a recovered drug addict and alcoholic. Her roommate is young Andrea Azura Skye, a heroin addict who sporadically selfharms and is a fan of the fictitious soap opera Santa Cruz.Initially, Gwen is angry and resistant to taking part in any of the treatment programs on offer, refusing to admit that she is an alcoholic. On visiting day, Jasper shows up and slips her a bottle of medication, then the two sneak off for a day of drinking and drugging. Later, Gwen returns to the facility, clearly inebriated. The next day, Gwen is confronted by Cornell. He informs her that shes being kicked out of rehab the next day and will be going to jail instead. Gwen angrily denies that she has a problem with alcohol, that she can stop anytime that she wants. Ignored, she angrily makes her way back to her room, where she rifles through her tissue box to get to her smuggled drugs. She puts a pill in her mouth but quickly spits it back out, then tosses the open bottle out the thirdstory window. ........

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