28 Days Page #8

Synopsis: New York based writer Gwen Cummings knows that she drinks a lot, doesn't believe it's a problem, and if she finally decides that it is that she could stop drinking without issue. She and her live-in boyfriend Jasper fuel each other's hyperactivity with this excessive alcohol consumption, "a normal life" which is not in either's vocabulary for themselves. Between Gwen and her older straight-laced sister Lily, Gwen more closely resembles who was their larger than life mother, who was also an addict and who died when they were children. Lily believes that Gwen's alcohol consumption makes her a difficult if not impossible person to love. While Gwen is in a drunken stupor at Lily's wedding, Gwen causes one issue after another, ruining the day for Lily. 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 for twenty-eight days, which is only marginally more tolerable an idea to her than the
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Director(s): Betty Thomas
Production: Columbia Pictures
  1 win.
 
IMDB:
6.0
Metacritic:
46
Rotten Tomatoes:
31%
PG-13
Year:
2000
103 min
Website
3,717 Views


And you know, people make mistakes.

lf you can't handle that, if you....

lf you want to decide that...

...my messing up means l'm not

worth being your friend...

...then you're not as smart

as you think you are.

That guy, Jasper.

l don't know him.

But l do know that

he is dangerous for you.

Wait.

Turkey.

Meant to be symbolic of my behavior

last time we saw each other.

l tried to track down

some roasted a**hole, but....

Listen, all right?

l've been thinking about us.

l can change if you want me to.

And we can have a totally

different life. All right?

l'll buy running shoes.

We'll take up yoga or jogging.

We'll be organized.

Pay our bills, floss our teeth.

We won't set fire

to the apartment anymore.

l'll buy a goldfish,

and we'll be like normal people.

You hate normal people.

No. What l hate is being without you.

You don't want to do this

on your own, do you?

We have to go.

Ten people die, but 500 people have

an amazing time...

...chasing this cheese

in the middle of the Cotswolds.

The only person who dies,

should really die, is old women.

Jasper, do you ever shut up?

l'm sorry.

But it's just that, you know,

if l'm gonna really--

Stay clean and sober,

as they say in the program.

Yeah. But it's not that simple.

Everything has to be different.

Absolutely.

And that includes us.

l'm trying to change things in me.

-l'm trying to--

-Look who's here.

Hey, Marty.

Elaine, look.

l was hoping l'd find you here.

My God, she's alive.

Gwennie's back in action.

Celebrate with us. We got a

monster table going in the back.

Excellent idea.

We're in the middle of something now.

Oh, come on, Gwennie.

Give us a couple of minutes.

We'll be over.

That was really embarrassing.

Where are you going?

They're waiting.

We'll just go in the back,

have a soda water, and then go.

They just want to say welcome home.

Come on.

What are you doing?

l don't know. l'm just trying to make

my outsides match my insides, l guess.

Leave the horse alone.

Oh, come on.

l just need help!

Right now!

l can control the little things.

Then l just have to let go.

And it's up to somebody else.

The hoof's looking pretty good.

Yeah, it does, doesn't it?

Are we all fixed now?

Not yet...

...but l'm getting there.

What else have you gotta do?

Check his teeth?

Bye, Jasper.

Sir, l can't replace the plant

just because you killed it.

l did not kill it.

lt was sick or something.

l gave it everything.

l was talking to it,

telling it stories.

l drew a sketch of it

and put it on my refrigerator.

Did you water it?

lt's important that l did not kill

this plant. Do you understand?

lf you're just saying that

because that's your excuse...

...you have to understand....

You can't mess with--

l'm never gonna get laid.

You obviously don't care.

And that's one thing l do, is care.

l feel sorry for

all the plants in here.

l'm going home.

l killed the plant.

lt's okay. lt's okay.

l killed the plant.

lt's okay. You still have your dog.

l don't even think he likes me.

l don't want to, l just....

What are you doing here?

lt's so good to see you!

lt looks like somewhere

out in the middle of nowhere.

-l see trees--

-No cell phones.

We carry our own bags here.

This isn't the Sheraton.

Hey, Falcon.

What?

l don't mean to bother you, but....

Don't miss tonight's Iecture:

''Is God An AIcohoIic?''

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Susannah Grant

Susannah Grant (born January 4, 1963) is an American screenwriter and director. more…

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