It's a solid 7.Watch 28 Days Later Full Movie Animal activists invade a laboratory with the intention of releasing chimpanzees that are undergoing experimentation infected by . This film has higher artistic/merit value than it does entertainment value (afterall, how entertaining can a movie about rehab be?).
There are good performances by all, especially Steven Buscemi who plays his small role straight and somber. Instead, it was more subtle rather than over the top. It could have been so cliched (although there were a couple of unavoidable ones) and paint-by-numbers.
In short, the best thing about the movie is what it wasn't. I guess the best thing to say is that she made a formula movie (girl bottoms out, girl resists rehab, girl comes to terms and embraces recovery) without boring us with the formula. There is very interesting camera work and flashback scenes that work very well. The pacing and amount of scene time seem just right. Betty Thomas also delivers another strong effort. It's certainly her best acting performance. She could have played this role in so many ways that would have been easy and predictable, but luckily she gave just the right amount of weight to her character. She's always been a very solid and dependable actress, but she gets to dig deeper here. This movie is all hers and she proves that while bubbly and energetic may be her niche, she can also be gritty and subtle to great effect. There is a little comedy thrown in the mix to keep things light at times (after all, rehab is a depressing subject), but the balance is about 80/20% in favor of drama. Don't be fooled by the advertisers and trailers, this movie is a drama. There are a lot of good things about 28 Days, especially from Sandra Bullock and Betty Thomas (Director). If she does eventually acknowledge the problem, she will also have to reconcile the events of her life with Lily, and come to the realization that a life with Jasper is not in her best interest if she has any chance of surviving outside of the facility after those twenty-eight days. For Gwen to make any progress, she has to acknowledge that she has a problem which requires the support during those twenty-eight days not only of the facility's staff, but also the other patients, each who is going through his/her own issue with respect to the demons of addiction. Gwen is forced to examine her drinking with the culmination of bad events she caused at the wedding, leading to her being court ordered to enter into rehab or jail for twenty-eight days, which is only marginally more tolerable an idea to her than the alternative, which is jail. While Gwen is in a drunken stupor at Lily's wedding, Gwen causes one issue after another, ruining the day for Lily. Lily believes that Gwen's addictions makes her a difficult if not impossible person to love. Between Gwen and her older straight-laced sister Lily, Gwen more closely resembles their larger than life mother, who was also an alcoholic and who died because of that when they were children. She and her live-in boyfriend Jasper fuel each other's hyperactivity with this excessive alcohol consumption, "a normal life" is not in either's vocabulary. New York based writer Gwen Cummings knows that she drinks a lot but doesn't believe it's a problem, and if she decides that it is an issue that she could stop drinking on her own.
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