This is a great movie! Sandra Bullock does a fantastic job at playing Gwen Cummings, an alcoholic, drug addict who wastes her life away, burning her bras and falling on her sister's wedding cake. Gwen is forced to go to rehab when she drives a car into someone's home.
The only part of this movie that's not very believable is how quickly she adapts to the rehab lifestyle. She goes from hating all of them one second to singing in the group circle the next. But it's easy to forget that fact after getting to know this loving and intense group of characters. They yell at her in a blunt, unforgiving manner, but it's easy to take their side.
My favorite is Gerhardt, the oddly foreign, slightly gay rehab patient who always provided the best humor.
A must see!
When Scenes
WHEN Gwen falls out of a tree trying to get her pills she threw out of the window.
WHEN Gwen first shots in therapy and the group claps for her.
WHEN Gwen stages a rehab version of Santa Cruz for Andrea's departure.
WHEN Gwen's sister Lily finally expresses to her all of her feelings.
WHEN Gerhardt says if he could wish for one thing it would be to have his foreskin back.
WHEN Gerhardt sees Gwen at the end of the movie in a plant store and cries because he's so excited to see her.
"Don't be someone else's slogan because you are poetry." - Sandra Bullock (Gwen Cummings)
"I'm sorry I make it so impossible to love me."- Sandra Bullock (Gwen Cummings)
"You make it impossible for me not to love you."- Elizabeth Perkins (Lily Cummings)
"Tonight's lecture: 'What's wrong with celebrating sobriety by getting drunk?"- Margo Martindale (Betty)
"Yeah, you're an individual. The only person in the world who uses drugs and alcohol."- Steve Buscemi (Cornell)
"I don't feel fine."- Sandra Bullock (Gwen Cummings)
"Well of course you don't feel fine, you're in Deliverance country surrounded by a bunch of sober freaks."- Dominic West (Jasper)
"Andrea, does the phrase 'in confidence' mean anything to you?"- Sandra Bullock (Gwen Cummings)
"You never said not to tell."- Azura Skye (Andrea)
"What are you doing here, it's so good to see you."- Alan Tudyk (Gerhardt)
Fun Facts:
Sandra Bullock spent time in a rehab clinic to prepare for her role in this film.
Most of the artwork in the background of the Parker House group sessions was done by real rehab patients.
Sandra Bullock would drink a triple espresso before any scene that required her character to have uncontrollable shakes.
In real life, Sandra Bullock is allergic to horses.
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