Two Weeks (2006)
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19% of critics liked it
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63% of users liked it
(4,649 ratings)
Director Steve Stockman takes the helm for this semi-autobiographical comedy drama about an estranged family that comes together for one last goodbye, and finds their assumedly brief farewell inexorably dragged out for two excruciating weeks. Aging matriarch Anita (Sally Field) is dying, but before… More Director Steve Stockman takes the helm for this semi-autobiographical comedy drama about an estranged family that comes together for one last goodbye, and finds their assumedly brief farewell inexorably dragged out for two excruciating weeks. Aging matriarch Anita (Sally Field) is dying, but before she goes, she has requested that her four grown children travel back home to visit their ailing mother on her deathbed. Eager to gain a better understanding of the dying process, daughter Emily purchases a variety of self-help books on the subject. Though brother Keith (Ben Chaplin) soon arrives determined to float through the process in typical L.A. Zen mode, Emily contends that the only way to be prepared for the future is to consider every detail that can go awry. When PR executive Barry arrives intent on getting some work done before death comes knocking, it appears as if he is more concerned with getting broadband Internet in the house than actually tending to his mother. Meanwhile, youngest brother Matthew sets at the sidelines biding his time as his unlikable wife, Katrina, callously speculates on which of the dying woman's luxurious jewels she will be inheriting. Now, as Anita begins to look back at her life while reflecting on the time spent with her family, the question of who will hold this family together once she is gone casts a melancholy shadow over her fond memories. ~ Jason Buchanan, Rovi
- Directed By
- Steve Stockman
- Genres
- Drama, Art House & International, Comedy
R,
- In Theaters
- Oct 20, 2006 Wide
- Studio
- MGM
Critic Reviews
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Wesley Morris, Boston Globe
Field looks appropriately wiped out. Although given how brittle, awkward, and completely uninteresting her younger co stars are, she could just be exasperated -- she's doing all the lifting.
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John Maynard, Washington Post
You will have to like Sally Field, you will have to really like Sally Field, to sit through Two Weeks.
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Lisa Schwarzbaum, Entertainment Weekly
The movie's warm advocacy of hospice, with all the dignity such end-of-life care provides, does real, influential good.
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Melissa Anderson, Time Out New York
The well-intentioned screenplay is all over the map, with many scenes too truncated to go anywhere dramatically or emotionally. Is a cancer movie that leaves you dry-eyed an oxymoron?
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Tom Keogh, Seattle Times
There is much to like in this poignant movie about those who leave this life and those left behind, but Two Weeks never quite pulls everything off.
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Cast
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Sally Field
as Anita Bergman
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Ben Chaplin
as Keith Bergman
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Lauren Ellman
as Flight Attendant
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Julianne Nicholson
as Emily Bergman
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Tom Cavanagh
as Barry Bergman
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James Murtaugh
as Jim Cranston
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Amy Hubbard
as Betsy Straight
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Terrence E. McNally
as Gerald Corwin
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Michael Hyatt
as Carol
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Glenn Howerton
as Matthew Bergman
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Clea DuVall
as Katrina
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Jenny O'Hara
as Julia
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Susan Misner
as Sherry
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Anna Grace Smith
as Sarah
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Jeffrey A. Johnson
as Ben
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Lori Beth Edgeman
as Suzanne
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Savannah Eller
as Jessica
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Peggy Walton-Walker
as Airline Agent
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John Will Clay
as National Guard
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Layne Sasser
as Sylvia
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Persephone Felder-Fentress
as Bedelia Thrush
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Alan Dysert
as Bank Manager
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Kenan Thompson
as Rabbi
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Neva Howell
as Grocery Clerk
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Holly Allen
as Customer Service Rep.
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Larry Black
as Arnie Taubman
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Judy Leavell
as Harriet Taubman
