http://www.criticsrant.com/archive/2007/10/29/FIVE-DAYS----Day-Thirty-Three.aspx The conceit of FIVE DAYS is, as its title suggests, that in five successive weeks we watch one day in an investigation that takes place well over two months in real time: days one, three, 28, 33 and finally day 79 when the case is closed.  But we’re not watching the investigation so much as we voyeurs into the lives of the people around it – the families, the investigators, the media, the hangers-on. It isn’t until 33 days after her disappearance that the body of Leanne Wellings (Christine Tremarco) shows up floating in a lake.  Before that, Leanne’s mother Barbara Poole (Penelope Wilton) told a reporter”  “All we do is wait.  We wait while life goes by without us.”  And it is difficult not to feel her pain and suffering. Afterwards, her father says: “You never think you’ll wind up looking forward to be sure she’s dead.”  And it is difficult not to sympathize and understand. People’s lives are rarely summed up so simply and so well.  It is to the credit of FIVE DAYS’ sole screenwriter, Gwyneth Hughes, that dialogue and emotions of so charged a subject come across so realistically.  The hope and despair of waiting and the toll it takes on those left behind is unbearable and comes through. en-US Critics Rant info@criticsrant.com Subtext Version 1.9.4.0 http://www.criticsrant.com/images/default_gravatar_bullhorn.png http://www.criticsrant.com/archive/2007/10/29/FIVE-DAYS----Day-Thirty-Three.aspx 77 60