Un'editorialista di un rinomato quotidiano è costretta ad andare in un centro di riabilitazione per tossicodipendenti e alcolizzati dopo aver rovinato il matrimonio della sorella e aver caus... Leggi tuttoUn'editorialista di un rinomato quotidiano è costretta ad andare in un centro di riabilitazione per tossicodipendenti e alcolizzati dopo aver rovinato il matrimonio della sorella e aver causato un incidente con una limousine rubata.Un'editorialista di un rinomato quotidiano è costretta ad andare in un centro di riabilitazione per tossicodipendenti e alcolizzati dopo aver rovinato il matrimonio della sorella e aver causato un incidente con una limousine rubata.
- Regia
- Sceneggiatura
- Star
- Premi
- 1 vittoria
- Oliver
- (as Michael O'Malley)
Trama
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- QuizSandra Bullock would drink a triple espresso before any scene that required her character to have uncontrollable shakes.
- BlooperContributors have pointed out that when she leaves after 28 days many of the same patients are still there, they assume this is an error, but they assume all the patients receive the same amount of time in rehab.
- Citazioni
Lily: The only thing I told you was how a pain in the ass you were.
Gwen Cummings: well I am a pain in the ass
Lily: Even a pain in the ass needs, someone, to take care of them. I didn't do that, I didn't and, I should have. I should have helped you with your homework, I should have walked you home after school. Sometimes I'd be walking with my friends and I'd see you half a block ahead, all alone. You were so little.
Gwen Cummings: Well, so were you
Lily: Yeh
Gwen Cummings: Well, I never asked for help so...
Lily: But you needed it, didn't you. I mean everybody does
Gwen Cummings: Yep... I'm sorry I make it so impossible to love me...
[crying]
Lily: You make it impossible for me not to love you
- Curiosità sui creditiAfter the credits a scene is shown where a new patient is arriving at rehab. The new patient is the actor playing Falcon in the soap Santa Cruz which is the favorite of both Eddie Boone and Andrea. Eddie Boone asks Falcon for an autograph.
- Versioni alternativeTV version changes Gerhardt's greatest wish. In the original it is to have his foreskin back, this is changed to wishing for an 'Abba (I)' box set.
- Colonne sonoreShould I Stay or Should I Go
Written by Mick Jones, Joe Strummer, Topper Headon (uncredited) and Paul Simonon (uncredited)
Performed by The Clash
Courtesy of Epic Records
By arrangement with Sony Music Licensing
In a sense, the film knew it was dealing with touchy subject matter when it highlighted the realities of rehab in NY, but why did it need to purposefully throw in the stereotypical comedic archetypes - the viking accented Alan Tursdysk, or O'Malley's strapdown one liners, or for that matter, the debonair English accented intelligent metro lover in Dom West? Perhaps it was in 2000, and you needed to sell films that way to appeal to their target audience of teenagers who did weed and drank too much, but the fact is, when you have Steve Buscemi, Sandra Bullock and Viggo Mortensen in a film you can afford to push the drama-reality envelope and go in that direction.
In fact, the film's best moments are when Thomas does this- in a series of flashbacks to let the audience get in sync and depth with Bullock's character. And, there are scenes where the comedy can be done appropriately and in concordance with the film's thematic content- such as the skit at the end for Azura Skye's character. Sadly, these good moves are coupled with some really tipsy flaws, including the ending where Mortensen's character meets the soap star. Bullock's character also undergoes way too quick a character change (for 28 days) if one was to really nitpick.
However, the themes in this film make this a film i would still recommend to youth and young people. Azura Skye's character's loneliness, depression and suicide are genuinely depicted, and the fragile and important message of hope and redemption amid the perfunctory nature of life in the rehab centre that are celebrated in the plot really help this film regain its footing. When Bullock's character realises that this (the pills and drugs) was not a way to live, and Mortensen addresses her insecurities of not being able to do a single thing right, the film touches significant depths and strikes the chords of viewers. My personal favourite was the scene were Lizzy Perkins' character acknowledges the flaws of hers and her sister's lives and establishes love and hope in reconciliation. You see, it is the film's ability to reach such levels that I know this film suffered from tipsily overindulging its themes-trying to tie in too much to everyone- from being a comedy to a drama.
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- 2 mar 2006
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Botteghino
- Budget
- 43.000.000 USD (previsto)
- Lordo Stati Uniti e Canada
- 37.170.488 USD
- Fine settimana di apertura Stati Uniti e Canada
- 10.310.672 USD
- 16 apr 2000
- Lordo in tutto il mondo
- 62.198.945 USD
- Tempo di esecuzione1 ora 43 minuti
- Colore
- Mix di suoni
- Proporzioni
- 1.85 : 1