My Life Without Me
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Metascore
57 out of 100

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7.9 out of 10

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  • Starring: Leonor Watling, Mark Ruffalo, Sarah Polley, Scott Speedman
  • Summary: Burdened with the secret that she is dying of cancer, but liberated by her new sense of control, a young woman?s emotional journey leads her to unexpected places and gives her life new meaning. (Sony Pictures Classics)

Critic Reviews

Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 18 out of 31
  2. Mixed: 10 out of 31
  3. Negative: 3 out of 31
  1. San Francisco Chronicle
    Reviewed by: Edward Guthmann
    100
    One of the year's sweetest surprises. It sneaks up on you, disarming you with its modesty and tenderness, its remarkable lack of self-infatuation.
  2. Dallas Observer
    Reviewed by: Gregory Weinkauf
    80
    The most life-affirming film about death to come along in ages.
  3. TV Guide
    Reviewed by: Ken Fox
    60
    Excellent performances from Sarah Polley and Deborah Harry, and a sensitive script from writer-director Isabel Coixet transform what might otherwise have been little more than a disease-of-the-week cable melodrama.
  4. ReelViews
    Reviewed by: James Berardinelli
    38
    A maudlin hack-job.

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 9 out of 10
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  3. Negative: 1 out of 10
  1. HelenaL.
    10
    visually, this film is superb. a very good script too, in terms of structure, even though the story itself sounds a bit conservative (see also the Village's witty review).… Expand
  2. [Anonymous]
    8
    The story presents a credible alternative to dieing young without being taken in by self-pity.
  3. ChadS.
    7
    It's a real toss-up as to which character is more pathetic; the janitor with terminal cancer who lives in a trailer, or the hairdresser with braids who devotes her life to a certain unfortunate musical act from the late-eighties. For the most part, "My Life Without Me" ably transcends TV-movie, disease-of-the-week waters(thanks to Sarah Polley's gritty performance), but even she can't save the scene in which a neighbor(whom we just met) gives an incredibly maudlin monologue that grinds the whole film to a halt. It's also hard to swallow that the husband doesn't realize his wife is dying. He doesn't seem to be on crack.… Expand

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