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28 Days is a american film of genre Drama directed by Betty Thomas released in USA on 6 april 2000 with Sandra Bullock
28 Days (2000)
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Add to a movie list28 Days is a 2000 American comedy-drama 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.
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Gwen Cummings (Sandra Bullock) spends her nights in a drunken haze with her boyfriend, Jasper (Dominic West). She ruins her sister (Elizabeth Perkins) Lily's wedding by showing up late and disheveled, delivering a drunken, rambling speech, and knocking over the wedding cake. Intoxicated, Gwen steals a limousine from the reception, tries to locate a cake store, and winds up losing control of the car and crashing into a house. She is given a choice between 28 days in jail or in a rehab center, and she chooses rehab.Actors
Sandra Bullock
(Gwen Cummings)
Viggo Mortensen
(Eddie Boone)
Dominic West
(Jasper)
Elizabeth Perkins
(Lily Cummings)
Diane Ladd
(Bobbie Jean)
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