Two Weeks (2006)

User Rating:

6.5/10   

Director:

Steve Stockman

Writer:

Steve Stockman (writer)

Genre:

Comedy | Drama

Tagline:

What are the moments that define your life?

Plot:

In this bittersweet comedy, four adult siblings gather at their dying mother's house in North Carolina for what they expect to be a quick...

Plot Keywords:

Mother | Dying | Machine Gun | Rabbi | Airport

Cast

Sally Field	...	Anita Bergman
Ben Chaplin	...	Keith Bergman
Lauren Aboulafia	...	Flight Attendant (as Lauren Ellman)
Julianne Nicholson	...	Emily Bergman
Tom Cavanagh	...	Barry Bergman
James Murtaugh	...	Jim Cranston
Amy Hubbard	...	Betsy Straight
Terrence E. McNally	...	Gerald Corwin (as Terrence McNally)
Michael Hyatt	...	Carol
Glenn Howerton	...	Matthew Bergman
Clea DuVall	...	Katrina
Jenny O'Hara	...	Julia
Susan Misner	...	Sherry
Anna Grace Smith	...	Sarah Bergman
Jeffrey Reagan Johnson	...	Ben Bergman (as Jeffrey Johnson)

MPAA:

Rated R for language, including some sexual references.

Runtime:

USA:102 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital

Certification:

USA:R | Finland:K-11 | New Zealand:M | Singapore:PG | Australia:M | Argentina:13

Filming Locations:

Los Angeles, California, USA

Company:

Custom Productions

Trivia:

Wil Wheaton read for the part of Keith Bergman.

Goofs:

Errors in geography: The family is supposed to be in the area of Wilmington, North Carolina. Yet when Barry tries to retrieve his baggage from the airport and gets arrested and Keith ends up bailing him out, you can clearly see that they are actually at the Sumner County courthouse, which is in northern Tennessee, above Nashville.

Quotes:

Anita Bergman: ...and then I started to cry and my nose was running because you were the ugliest baby I'd ever seen... so ugly.
Keith Bergman: Yeah, but I... I got better looking right?
Anita Bergman: ...

Movie Connections:

Featured in Two Weeks: Learning to Live through Dying (2007) (V)

Audience Loved It

I read some bad reviews, but saw this film at a sneak preview with an audience that laughed out loud, some cried, and many stood in the lobby talking about it afterward. Sally Field puts it all on screen, and I've actually lived and felt many of the awkward experiences the humor is based on. I remember how difficult it was to suddenly be right back with my Brothers and Sisters dealing with the finality of what was about to happen. This movie captures that perfectly. At the same time, once you face it, you have to live, laugh, talk, and take care of details. A lot of the experiences in Two Weeks are so common to everyone, but NEVER really talked about.