28 Days is a 2000 American comedy-drama movie directed by Betty Thomas and written by Susannah Grant. Sandra Bullock stars as Gwen Cummings, a newspaper reporter who is forced to enter rehab for alcoholism. The film stars Viggo Mortensen, Dominic West, Azura Skye, Elizabeth Perkins, Steve Buscemi, and Diane Ladd.
Gwen Cummings is an alcoholic who spends her nights in a drunken haze with her boyfriend Jasper. They arrive late and disheveled for her sister Lily’s wedding, where Gwen smashes the wedding cake and drunkenly steals a limo, and crashes into a house. Given a choice between jail or 28 days in a rehab center, she chooses rehab.
Gwen is introduced to various patients: hypersexual cocaine addict Oliver, ex-doctor Daniel, mother of two Roshandy, elderly drug addict Bobbi Jean, Dutch immigrant Gerhardt, and Gwen’s roommate Andrea, a teenage heroin addict.
Angry and resistant, Gwen refuses to enter treatment or admit she’s an alcoholic but struggles with flashes of her mother, an addict who died of an overdose when Gwen and Lily were children. Now, know about 28 Days movie filming locations.
Where Was 28 Days Movie Filmed?
’28 Days’ was filmed in North Carolina and New York, specifically in Buncombe County, Wilmington, New York City, and Bedford. Principal photography for the drama began in April 1999 and ended in July of the same year. Now let’s go through the specific locations that appear in the 28 Days movie!
North Carolina
Several key sequences for “28 Days” were filmed in Buncombe County, a county included in Western North Carolina. The production team set up camp at the Blue Ridge Assembly YMCA to film most of the scenes involving the rehab center.
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Located at 84 Blue Ridge Circle in Black Mountain, it is a non-profit organization that provides recreation programs and services for people of all ages. Plus, the cast and crew even used Asheville locations for the film’s production. It is the county seat of Buncombe County and the largest city in western North Carolina.
Other parts of the film were shot in Wilmington, a port city and county seat of New Hanover County. The production unit mainly used EUE / Screen Gems Studios equipment. The production facility is located at 1223 North 23rd Street in Wilmington and consists of 10 stages with 150,000 square feet of column-free filming space.
New York
The cast and crew of 28 Days even traveled to New York, the most populous city in the United States, to shoot parts of the film. They set up camp at Shea Stadium at 123-01 Roosevelt Avenue in Flushing Meadows-Corona Park, Queens. An actual apartment at 104 Crosby Street & Prince Street in Manhattan doubled as Gwen’s apartment in the comedy movie.
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In addition, several Manhattan streets appear in the background of several scenes, including Lafeyette Street, Crosby Street, Prince Street, and Park Avenue (near Grand Central Terminal).
Several sequences for the film were also shot in Bedford, a town in Westchester County, New York. The town is located in the northeastern part of the county and is home to many landmarks, including John Jay Homestead, Stepping Stones – Historic Home of Bill & Lois Wilson, Bedford Free Library, and Bedford Oak.
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