I saw this on the tv schedule last week and decided I couldn't watch it based on the material but then I changed my mind. PVRed it and just finished it. The movie is way better than I anticipate altho' I was REALLY hoping Toni Collette's character wouldn't die of breast cancer, because a LARGE % of breast cancer patients do survive - and thrive. I went through b/c treatment last year and I could totally relate to parts of it - the double mastectomy and the self conscious feelings afterwards, etc. The subject was handled very well I thought, and the acting was very good from all the actors. But I felt very sad at the end and I so wished she had survived. It also reminded me of Beaches a lot.
It was bittersweet, funny in parts, sad, but never really got maudlin and depressing and manipulative. So well done to all involved!
Lastly, that hospice was UNREAL! Just gorgeous. Like a luxury hotel suite. Having seen my sister die in a hospice in NE England I can tell you her room was nothing like that!
It was bittersweet, funny in parts, sad, but never really got maudlin and depressing and manipulative. So well done to all involved!
Lastly, that hospice was UNREAL! Just gorgeous. Like a luxury hotel suite. Having seen my sister die in a hospice in NE England I can tell you her room was nothing like that!