Two Weeks 2006

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. Read more

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. Read more

Kevin Crust, Los Angeles Times: An ineffective would-be tear-jerker that proves the adage 'dying is easy, comedy is hard.' Read more

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. Read more

Tim Grierson, L.A. Weekly: Writer-director-producer Steve Stockman's ineffectual shrug of a death-bed dramedy hardly inspires much response one way or the other. Read more

Jan Stuart, Newsday: For all the vomiting and the runny noses, Two Weeks feels a little too cozy to fully pass muster as art. Read more

Elizabeth Weitzman, New York Daily News: In his uneven drama Two Weeks, first-time feature director Steve Stockman bravely delves into the ugly realities of dying. Unfortunately, he has no idea where to go from there. Read more

Lou Lumenick, New York Post: Overall, TV veteran Stockman isn't terribly skillful at meshing comedy and drama. Read more

Ruthe Stein, San Francisco Chronicle: Attempts at black humor, although not unrealistic during such a trying time, fall flat. Far worse than not laughing at the jokes, you're unlikely to be moved to tears at sad moments. Read more

Melissa Anderson, Time Out: 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? Read more

Robert Koehler, Variety: With Sally Field as the cancer-ridden mom and the combined talents of Ben Chaplin, Julianne Nicholson and Tom Cavanagh surrounding her, pic veers unsteadily between melodrama and light comedy, with no confidence in either. Read more

John Maynard, Washington Post: You will have to like Sally Field, you will have to really like Sally Field, to sit through Two Weeks. Read more