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28 Days

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28 Days is a 2000 American dramedy film directed by Betty Thomas and starring Sandra Bullock, with a supporting cast including Viggo Mortensen, Dominic West, Elizabeth Perkins, Steve Buscemi, Alan Tudyk, and Diane Ladd.Gwen Cummings (Bullock) is a newspaper columnist who drinks. A lot. But she doesn't have a problem – she and her boyfriend Jasper (West) just like to have a good time. One Saturday morning after a heavy night of drinking, Gwen and Jasper arrive 45 minutes late for Gwen's older sister Lily's (Perkins) wedding. Completely drunk and high, Gwen and Jasper dance a little too roughly, knocking over the wedding cake. Insisting she will fix it, Gwen sheds her icing-covered bridesmaid's dress and hijacks the limousine to look for a replacement for the missing cake – only to wind up driving into a house.Gwen is sentenced to 28 days of hard rehab. Thus our story begins.Definitely not to be confused with 28 Days Later.
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Big, Screwed-Up Family
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Big, Screwed-Up Family: Gwen and Lily's father left them when they were young. their mother was a raging alcoholic and probably died because of it. Gwen and Lily were raised by their Aunt. Lily managed to avoid the chemical dependency, but Gwen didn't.
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Title Drop: When it's mentioned how long Gwen's court-ordered treatment must last.
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Take Our Word for It: The back of the DVD case and blurbs say that Gwen is "a successful N.Y. Journalist", but we never see any proof of that, and it doesn't really come up.
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I Need a Freaking Drink
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I Need a Freaking Drink: Gwen deals with this the first few days.
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Chekhov's Gag
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Chekhov's Gag: When Daniel leaves, Oliver idly mentions there's a 3 in 10 chance they'll see him again. Daniel is back before Gwen's 28 days are up. Also Andrea mentioning off-handedly that Falcon really is leaving Santa Cruz sets up The Stinger (see below)
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What Did I Do Last Night?
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What Did I Do Last Night?: Gwen doesn't remember how her bra ended up charred the night before the wedding. (We, as the audience, do.)
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Older Than They Look
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Older Than They Look: Gwen asks if Andrea is 12. She says she's 17.
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Car Meets House
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Car Meets House: Gwen did a lot of crazy things that day, this was just the last on the list.
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Surprisingly Realistic Outcome
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Surprisingly Realistic Outcome: The film isn't shy on how hard the rehab is and how many people lapse back to their addictions Andrea is a heroin addict and despite getting out of the rehab clinic she goes back to using and overdoses, as many heroin addicts do Daniel happily leaves rehab, committed to being sober. . . and is back within days, having relapsed.
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Conveniently Empty Building
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Conveniently Empty Building: Evidently no one was hurt when Gwen crashed into the house, or we would have heard about it. Lampshaded when Cornell tells Gwen that the lawn jockey she ran over could have been a four-year-old.
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Funny Foreigner: Alan Tudyk as Gerhardt is played as essentially nothing but comic relief throughout the film... right up until he breaks your heart in the final scene.
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The Stinger
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The Stinger: The actor who plays Falcon on the Soap Opera Show Within a Show Santa Cruz has arrived at the center for Rehab.
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Drunken Song
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Drunken Song: Played with. As the rehab group comes home from their trust course, they sing a drinking song on the bus.
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Flashback: To the wedding and to childhood
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Off the Wagon
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Off the Wagon: Daniel and Andrea
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Covered in Gunge
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Covered in Gunge: Gwen is covered in icing after the cake incident.
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Worst Wedding Ever
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Worst Wedding Ever: A particularly infamous one. The event that prompted Gwen to go to rehab all began as her being a one-woman wrecking crew at Lily's wedding. She showed up late to stand in as a bridesmaid, brought her fellow alcoholic boyfriend with her, gave a drunken speech that made it seem like her sister only married her newlywed husband for his money, fell onto the wedding cake while dancing with said boyfriend, ruining it, and after undressing from her gown and stealing the limo in order to buy a new cake, she crashes the car into a nearby house. Fortunately, Lily and her husband are still Happily Married in spite of their terrible day and she was eventually able to deliver a well-deserved "The Reason You Suck" Speech to Gwen in rehab.
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Prison Rape
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Prison Rape: Jasper reassures Gwen that rehab is a preferable alternative to prison.
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Actually, I Am Him
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Actually, I Am Him: Gwen initially thinks her counselor is another patient.
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The Alcoholic
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The Alcoholic: In fact the entire film mainly is about this trope. Gwen drinks so much that it is ruining her life; it damages her relationship with her sister, not to mention that it gets her arrested and sent to rehab, kicking off the plot. Gwen and Lily's mother also was an alcoholic, to the point that she died from it.
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Drunken Montage
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Drunken Montage: Opening credits again.
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The Short Guy with Glasses
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The Short Guy with Glasses: Daniel, the doctor.
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Time Title
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Time Title: The length of the rehabilitation program the main character goes to.
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This Is Gonna Suck
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This Is Gonna Suck: Pointed out by Cornell:
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Dramatically Missing the Point
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Dramatically Missing the Point: When young Gwen is told that her alcoholic mother has died.
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Nailed to the Wagon
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Nailed to the Wagon: Its sort of the whole point of a rehab clinic.
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All for Nothing
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All for Nothing: Andrea is set to go home. She's finished her rehab. Gwen and her friends put on a play and give her some kind words. Andrea dies of an overdose before even leaving the clinic.
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What Have I Become?
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What Have I Become?: Gwen begins to realize this after her fall, when she tries to climb down to get the pills she threw out the window.
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Precision F-Strike
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Precision F-Strike: The writers had to deliberate over the best place for Sandra Bullock to use the F word, it being a PG-13 movie. In the end, they dropped "Fuck Mr. Rogers" and went with the more perfunctory scene in which Bullock's character defends herself in a group circle. "Would you please just BACK THE FUCK OFF?!"
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Binge Montage: During the opening credits.
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Show Within a Show: Santa Cruz, and their play, Santa Booze
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Soap Opera
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Soap Opera: In universe, Santa Cruz an Expy of Santa Barbara
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Title Confusion
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Title Confusion: This movie, called 28 Days came out in 2000. The zombie film 28 Days Later came out in 2002. Two years is within a tight, but still reasonable time frame to produce a sequel, so some people did wonder if 28 Days Later was a sequel - until the trailers came out. 28 Days Later went on to become a big hit, spawning its own also-similarly-named sequel 28 Weeks Later. 28 Days, however, is less well-known.
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No More for Me
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No More for Me: Gwen arrives at this at the bar with Jasper
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Vomit Discretion Shot: Gwen's first night in rehab.
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Crowd Song: They sing to people when they leave.
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Fanservice Extra: The first girl Oliver is seen with in an elevator isn't wearing pants. Or underwear.
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Wacky Cravings
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Wacky Cravings: Gum, ginger snaps, chocolate, cigarettes - anything to ease the withdrawal.
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Shown Their Work
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Shown Their Work: A great deal of effort went into making sure the therapy was right.
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