The film costars Viggo Mortensen, Dominic West, Elizabeth Perkins, Azura Skye, Steve Buscemi, and Diane Ladd.

Cornell, the facility’s director and a recovering addict himself prepares to kick Gwen out to serve her jail sentence, but she still denies that she has a problem.

Returning to her room, she stops Andrea from cutting herself, and grows closer to her and their fellow addicts, who warn that Jasper does not take her sobriety seriously.

Discovering that he is a fan of Santa Cruz, Andrea’s favorite soap opera, Gwen and the group begin watching it together.

Leaving him and their old party friends at a bar, she encounters a horse on the street and can lift its hoof on her second try (after asking for help), an activity she struggled with in rehab.

[3] The YMCA Blue Ridge Assembly in Black Mountain, North Carolina, served as the Serenity Glen rehabilitation center.

"[9] Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times wrote: "Bullock brings a kind of ground-level vulnerability to 28 Days that doesn't make her into a victim but simply into one more suitable case for treatment.

"[10] Stephen Holden of The New York Times said it "begins with such a flurry of promise that it comes as a sharp disappointment when this drug-rehab comedy skids out of control.