![]() Jasper offers to make amends, but Gwen realizes he is unwilling to change to support her recovery. They reconcile and Gwen leaves treatment, but not before Eddie warns her that Jasper is dangerous to her sobriety. She discovers Andrea dead in their bathroom from an overdose, and commits herself to restoring her relationship with her sister. Jasper shows up unannounced, finding Gwen with Eddie picking a fight, he insults them both and Eddie punches him, straining his friendship with Gwen. Andrea will soon be released, and Gwen arranges a farewell skit for the group to perform. Lily attends a group therapy session, revealing that a drunken Gwen ruined her wedding with a humiliating speech, and leaves in disgust when Gwen dismisses Lily’s feelings. Discovering that he is a fan of Santa Cruz, Andrea’s favorite soap opera, Gwen and the group begin watching it together. Gwen learns that Eddie is a professional baseball player, and they share an impulsive kiss but form a friendship instead. 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. Jasper visits and proposes to Gwen with champagne, which she throws in the lake. She falls, severely spraining her ankle, and is rescued by Eddie, a new patient.įinally convinced that she has a problem, Gwen asks Cornell for another chance and begins to participate in the recovery process. After spending the day suffering withdrawal symptoms alone, she climbs out of the window to retrieve the pills. Storming back to her room, she takes one of her smuggled pills, but spits it out and tosses the bottle out of her third-story window. 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. On visiting day, Jasper slips Gwen a bottle of painkillers and they sneak off for an inebriated day together. Angry and resistant, Gwen refuses to take part in treatment or admit she is an alcoholic, but struggles with flashbacks of her mother, an addict who died of an overdose when Gwen and Lily were children. Gwen is introduced to a variety of patients: hypersexual cocaine addict Oliver, former doctor Daniel, mother of two Roshanda, older addict Bobbi Jean, Dutch immigrant Gerhardt, and Gwen’s roommate Andrea, a teenage heroin addict. Given a choice between jail time or 28 days in a rehab center, she chooses rehab. They arrive late and disheveled to her sister Lily's wedding, where Gwen knocks over the wedding cake and drunkenly steals a limousine, crashing into a house. ![]() ![]() Imagine having to try to explain that to him.".Gwen Cummings is an alcoholic who spends her nights in a drunken haze with her boyfriend, Jasper. I turned to one of the concessions guys and said "thank God it wasn't a prequel. He finally figured it out and bought his tickets, bought some popcorn and he and his girlfriend went into the movie. I then sighed and looked him in the face and held up two fingers and said slowly and rather louder than I intended to "part two!", and he STILL didn't get it! His girlfriend was trying to explain it to him using the original Spider-man movie trilogy as a reference "you know, Spider-man, Spider-man 2, Spider-man 3.", her actual words. I looked down while massaging the bridge of my nose and no word of a lie and without trying to hide it in any way, shape or form, I said "oh Jesus!". He nods a few time then hits me with "what's a sequel?". So I asked him if he had seen "28 days later", he answered yes and I told him that "28 weeks later" was the sequel to that movie. I hadn't seen the movie nor had I seen it's predecessor. He walks up to the ticket booth and says "28 weeks later, what's that movie like? Is it any good?". I'm about half an hour from being finished for the day and I'm tired when in walks the subject of this story. Have I seen it? Is it good? What is it about? So on and so forth. Now it's not uncommon for customers to ask me questions about the movie. It's Friday night and we have 28 weeks later playing. ![]() Fridays and Saturdays were my longest work days, they would see me on the go for about 14 hours both days from the time I left to go to work until I got back home at the end of the day. At the time I was working a 9 to 5 job and on the weekends I worked at the theatre. This just reminded me of my time many years ago working in a movie theatre.
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