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My Life Without Me

Ann (Sarah Polley) is 23, has two daughters, a husband (Scott Speedman), a fretting mother (Deborah Harry), lives in Vancouver, and discovers that she has inoperable cancer. Keeping her diagnosis secret, she makes a list 'Things To Do Before Dying' which she completes little by little. Unexpectedly, Ann discovers an appetite for life that drives her to live with a sensual and furious intensity she had not known before. She prepares her daughters' lives without her, meets a man whom she seduces, and paradoxically heals... and faces each next day with a courage she never knew she had. "This contemplative drama manages to dodge mawkish potholes to emerge as a strangely life-affirming work." - New York Post.

Year: 2003
Genre: Drama, Film Festivals 2004
Country: Canada, Spain
Director: Isabel Coixet
Starring: Sarah Polley, Mark Ruffalo, Scott Speedman, Amanda Plummer, Leonor Watling, Deborah Harry, Maria de Medeiros
Duration: 90 Minutes
Rating: M - Adult themes.
7.6/10
Location in store: Drama

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