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All My Puny Sorrows

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Based on Miriam Toews' best-selling novel, All My Puny Sorrows unexpectedly infuses wry humor into this heart-wrenching story of two loving sisters: one a gifted pianist (Sarah Gadon) obsessed with ending her life, the other a struggling writer (Alison Pill) who, in wrestling with this decision, makes profound discoveries about herself.
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A well-meaning but flawed adaptation of its source material ,All My Puny Sorrows benefits from Alison Pill's searing performance.

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Christy Lemire FilmWeek (LAist) 05/10/2022
Alison Pill just tears it up in this. She is funny, raw, and complex. Go to Full Review Guy Lodge Variety 05/06/2022
Where many films would use this as a springboard for a tedious moral treatise on a hot-button issue, “All My Puny Sorrows” keeps the focus commendably and non-judgmentally personal. Go to Full Review Teo Bugbee New York Times 05/03/2022
The ensemble builds believable chemistry as intimate family members, and when their characters deliver their arguments for life or death, the stakes feel appropriately high. Go to Full Review Eric Marchen Rogers TV 12/10/2022
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It's better suited to the page than screen as the pain gets passed off in purple prose, which in turn undermines the emotional core. Go to Full Review Asia Frey Lagniappe (Mobile, AL) 10/03/2022
If you are in the right mindset for a serious drama, All My Puny Sorrows is a delicate, beautiful story, a worthy screen adaptation of a book that has challenged and comforted many readers. Go to Full Review Valerie Kalfrin AWFJ.org 06/13/2022
The performances are strong all around, especially from Alison Pill as a woman painfully and poignantly trying to convince her sister that life is worthwhile. Go to Full Review Read all reviews

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Joao P 10/19/2023 A great movie with a heavy, depressing, story. The images are fantastic.0 See more Brian K @Briankeith3 02/11/2023 While the story, based on the novel by Canadian Miriam Toews, at times has that over-stuffed and awkward sense of book turned into novel, overall the movie succeeds: Based on the lead actor, great supporting actors, and some gripping scenes (even if the dialogue sometimes needed to be better re-written for the screenplay, into a more natural, and less written speaking), this movie is well worth your time. And the difficult emotions are sufficiently earned to make them easier to bare. Just don't expect happy endings; just very human experiences. See more 01/30/2023 A solid movie that can hit hard. The performances by the two sisters was convincing and I felt the dynamics at play. See more greg r 05/07/2022 Alison Pill is extraordinary in this role. An amazing book brought to screen. See more 05/03/2022 This movie was great! Throughly enjoy it, it made be both cry and laugh. See more 05/03/2022 Great film! Beautiful performances and script, I laughed and I cried. I would definitely watch this again, it was a lovely experience. See more Read all reviews
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Michael McGowan

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Alison Pill

Yoli

Sarah Gadon

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Amybeth McNulty

Nora

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Jake

Mare Winningham

Lottie

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Synopsis Based on Miriam Toews' best-selling novel, All My Puny Sorrows unexpectedly infuses wry humor into this heart-wrenching story of two loving sisters: one a gifted pianist (Sarah Gadon) obsessed with ending her life, the other a struggling writer (Alison Pill) who, in wrestling with this decision, makes profound discoveries about herself.
Director
Michael McGowan
Producer
Tyler Levine, Michael McGowan, Patrice Theroux
Screenwriter
Michael McGowan
Production Co
Mulmur Feed Co. Production, Sugar Shack Productions, Carousel Pictures
Rating
R (Language|Brief Sexuality)
Genre
Drama
Original Language
English
Release Date (Streaming)
May 3, 2022
Runtime
1h 43m