28 Days Awards

Sandra Bullock spent some time in rehab clinic to prepare for her role in this film.During filming in New York, Sandra Bullock stayed in Dennis Hopper's apartment.The set used for the Santa Cruz soap opera is the _"Days Of Our Lives" (1965)_ set.

The medical condition that Santa Cruz's character Falcon ('Jack Armstrong' ) suffers from is meligiona astrocytoma. An astrocytoma is a malignant tumor of nervous tissue composed of astrocytes.The bit where Gerhardt (Alan Tudyk) talks about wanting his foreskin back was edited out for TV. In the TV version, Gerhardt talks about wanting an ABBA box set.The band playing at Lily's ('Elizabeth Perkins' ) wedding is NRBQ.

There were six wedding cakes made for the wedding scene shoot. One cake was used for a test shot with a stunt woman falling on it to see how it would look. Unbeknownst to director 'Betty Thomas' , there were two wooden spikes inside of the cake for structural support. Fortunately when the stunt woman fell on the cake, she was not wounded.A YMCA in North Carolina was used at the Serenity Glen rehab. The YMCA continued to operate during the shooting of the film.Most of the artwork in the background of the Parker House group sessions was done by real rehab patients.Having sex in the handicap elevator is based on a true story of sex addicts in rehab sneaking off to have sex in the handicap elevator. They thought it was the one place they would not get caught.

Sandra Bullock would drink a triple espresso before any scene that required her character to have uncontrollable shakes.The use of neck signs was based on real rehab therapy techniques.Alan Tudyk's character fork testimonial was totally improvised by Alan.The gum wrapper chain was made by prop master 'Dean Wilson' 's wife. It took her two weeks to make three different sized chains.

In the scene where Jasper finds Eddie with Gwen, Jasper throws his cigarette down in a jealous rage. But in the next shot, he still has the cigarette, as well as the shot where he's getting off the ground after being punched.In the scene where Jasper finds Eddie with Gwen, Jasper throws his cigarette down in a jealous rage. But in the next shot, he still has the cigarette, as well as the shot where he's getting off the ground after being punched.While everyone is performing "Santa Booze" Garhardt's bed covers jump from smooth to rumpled and his air tube disappears.