My Life Without Me
58,997
Drama. Romance
Ann (Polley) is a hard working 23-year-old mother with two young daughters, a husband (Speedman) who spends more time unemployed than working, a mother (Harry) with a history of broken dreams and a father who has spent the last ten years in jail. She spends her nights working as a janitor in a university and lives with her family in a tiny trailer in her mother's backyard. After collapsing one day, Ann goes in for a medical check-up and ... [+]
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United Kingdom | BBC | "Coixet's dignified, heartfelt little indie drama proves that dying young doesn't always come with the schmaltz of a Julia Roberts movie. Outstanding." | POS |
Canada | Toronto Star | "Against all odds, My Life Without Me succeeds in spite of itself." | POS |
United States | The New York Observer | "What saves My Life Without Me from the status of a five-Kleenex weepie is the maturity of vision that permeates the writing and direction and shines through each performance." | POS |
United States | Newsday | "Intelligent and affecting as the film is, it buckles under the weight of overexplicitness, a tendency to say more than it needs to." | NEU |
United States | The Hollywood Reporter | "Affirms life in surprising and gratifying ways that shed light on who its characters are and how they come to value life through a death." | POS |
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