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      My Life Without Me

      R 2003 1 hr. 46 min. Drama List
      65% 100 Reviews Tomatometer 87% 10,000+ Ratings Audience Score When hard-working mother of two Ann (Sarah Polley) discovers she has terminal ovarian cancer and the doctors give her two months to live, she decides to keep the news from her family. Passing off her increasing weakness as a mild case of anemia, Ann begins to put her priorities in order in preparation for the last few months of her life. She records birthday messages for her daughters, visits her estranged father in prison and even seeks a replacement wife for her husband, Lee (Mark Ruffalo). Read More Read Less
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      Sarah Polley keeps this production afloat with her moving performance.

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      T E Great movie definately that is not, thank god, directed by Sarah Polley as Rottentomatoes has mis-credited. Isabel Croixet wrote and directed this (with the assistance of the great art critic and historian John Berger). Polley is a crap, self involved, director without the chops to write, much less direct a movie of such subtlety. The soundtrack alone is worth the price of admission and is really well deployed. Ruffalo is at his early career best. This movie is about falling in love and the slow death of a mother from cancer without the standard cliches of shaved heads, crying children, severe weight loss... We don't even get to see her die! Not a movie for people who need those Hollywood tropes. Rated 5 out of 5 stars 09/18/22 Full Review Audience Member I can't understand her behavior. Rated 1 out of 5 stars 02/03/23 Full Review steve d Considering it's premise I thought it was surprisingly entertaining. Rated 3 out of 5 stars 03/30/23 Full Review Audience Member A poor flat movie. Mediocre at best Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars 02/10/23 Full Review Audience Member probably my favorite movie so far. brilliantly filmed, absolutely moving and sweet. A great life lesson. Rated 5 out of 5 stars 02/19/23 Full Review Audience Member I hate it when movie writers/directors don't do the simplest homework on a topic they choose to include in a movie. Siamese twins are never boy/girl. So distracting to an otherwise very touching scene. I liked this movie. Both men in her life were very likable characters. Rated 3 out of 5 stars 02/09/23 Full Review Read all reviews Post a rating

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      Neil Norman London Evening Standard Through a series of quietly expressed and telling scenes, director Isabel Coixet steers a sure path between sentimentality and mawkishness: imminent death in the movies has rarely generated such humanity, such humour or such strength. Jan 11, 2018 Full Review Empire Magazine Rated: 3/5 Dec 30, 2006 Full Review Sarah Kaufman Washington Post My Life Without Me is not a gentle film. Insistent and unforgettable, it wounds on the inside, and the scars feel fresh for some time. Sep 26, 2005 Full Review Anton Bitel Projected Figures a complicated snapshot of a young woman in crisis who refuses to become an object of pity, and who is driven by a single-minded desire to keep her family as happy as possible both during the brief time left to her and after. Jun 21, 2020 Full Review Felix Vasquez Jr. Cinema Crazed Polley gives an outstanding performance... Apr 29, 2009 Full Review Boyd van Hoeij european-films.net A gigantically amoral cliche of a film. Apr 1, 2007 Full Review Read all reviews

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      Synopsis When hard-working mother of two Ann (Sarah Polley) discovers she has terminal ovarian cancer and the doctors give her two months to live, she decides to keep the news from her family. Passing off her increasing weakness as a mild case of anemia, Ann begins to put her priorities in order in preparation for the last few months of her life. She records birthday messages for her daughters, visits her estranged father in prison and even seeks a replacement wife for her husband, Lee (Mark Ruffalo).
      Director
      Sarah Polley
      Production Co
      SLU, El Deseo S.A.
      Rating
      R (Language)
      Genre
      Drama
      Original Language
      English
      Release Date (Streaming)
      Apr 9, 2018
      Box Office (Gross USA)
      $395.6K
      Sound Mix
      Dolby Stereo, Dolby A, Dolby SR, Dolby Digital, Surround