Too much of everything

Most undeservingly overhyped movie of all time??

Best movie of this year hands down!

The plot isn't so bad, but the pace of storytelling is too slow which makes people bored. Certain moments are so obvious and unnecessary for the main plot. I would've fast-forwarded those moments if it was an online streaming. The ending looks like implying a sequel, not sure if this movie will get one

So much to love, so much to hate in this film.Loved the acting, love the characters, love the script. But the story is garbage. Why would anyone not share their cancer diagnosis with those they most love? Why would a woman leave her children with a strange neighbor who just moved in and met less than a minute ago? Why would a husband not ask where his wife was after she spent the night sleeping in a laundermat. Why would a woman choose to be so incredibly selfish to her two young girls instead of giving them the chance to learn about death and say goodbye?The main character's actions and motivations make no sense anyway, because we have no context for her behavior before or after her diagnosis. I was bored through most of the movie anyway. Watch it for the acting, not the story.

Just watched this film for the first time last night. I am continually amazed by the acting chops of both Sarah Polley and Mark Ruffalo. She has the difficult task in this movie, as in one of her other films, The Sweet Hereafter, of portraying someone who has a difficult decision to make. Not necessarily that she makes the right choice by society's standards, but it is HER choice to make. She plays a loving mother, wife and daughter who, at 24, receives the most tragic news about her health. Because of her choice to keep it a secret she is faced with processing this tragic blow without support from family or friends. One can only imagine the difficulty in going about you day to day life with this knowledge and the stress of keeping it hidden. But in doing so she is able to have an experience she feels she missed out on because of her station in life, having children so young and being married to their dad. Her husband talks about taking the family on a beach vacation as they never get out much (most likely due to financial reasons).He tells her "You never complain", then kisses her neck. It's the tender moments like these between husband and wife, and later with her lover, that bring a sense of yearning to the film. The film captures the lives of those that fall through the cracks of life, they are not rich or beautiful, just hard working folks struggling to make ends meet, dealing the cards they've been dealt.

I have always been a fan of the work of Sarah Polley. She always creates intriguing, realistic characters. She doesn't seem to be acting, she seems to be occupying the character as if it were real. This movie might not have worked with a less talented actress.The movie is set and filmed in British Columbia, and concerns a slice of life that many of us are not familiar with. A young couple, with two children, living in a small trailer home in the back yard of the wife's mother. The husband works with a company that builds home swimming pools, the wife works evenings as a custodian at a local school. They don't take vacations, they buy used clothes, they use the local laundromat. But they seem happy. And it all seems very realistic.Polley is Ann, and one day feeling particularly puny goes to the hospital. After a way too long wait and several tests finds out she has tumors growing and they are not curable. At 24, forced to examine her whole existence. With about 2 months to live. So she goes to a small café' and over a cup of coffee and a slice of pineapple cheese cake makes her list of "the things she wants to do before she dies." Surprisingly one of them is to get someone else to fall in love with her. Perhaps not surprising is to find a wife for her husband who can be a good mother to her girls. And through all this not tell anyone what her situation was.Her husband is Scott Speedman as Don . I don't like Speedman as an actor, ever since I first saw him on "Felicity". He has the type of face that smiles even when there shouldn't be a smile, and I find it very irritating. But here his role is relatively small and I didn't object too strongly.There is no glamor to this movie, it has very little music and is short in a gritty style. Many will not like it, but I found it to be a very good viewing. It made me wonder what I would do, what would be on my "bucket list" if I found out I was going to die shortly.SPOILERS: She meets a guy in the laundromat (Mark Ruffalo) and ends up having a love affair with him, not to cheat on her husband, but to experience something different, since Don is the only man she had even ever kissed, and by 17 she was already a mother. She went to visit her dad (Alfred Moliona) in prison. She made tapes for her girls, to be played for each of their birthdays until they reached 18. She found the single lady next door, also Ann, to be the perfect new mom for her girls.

Well, I think I'm the first reviewer that didn't like this film.You know, it is about a young girl who discovers she's gonna die in 2 months and doesn't tell anyone. The writers could have noticed that she didn't change a thing in her behavior, which is extremely improbable. EVERYONE who discovers the death is coming soon tend to enjoy life and be very sad when bed time comes. But in "My Life Without Me", the girl is the same before and after; sad/depressed all the time and has no charisma at all.Something impressing in this movie is that people are talking to each other and all of a sudden one of them leaves the table and say "I have to go". And that's it, no goodbye, no brief period before leaving, they just "have to go". Where does everybody have to go?Also, I don't believe someone who is about to die is capable to keep it as a secret for everyone. This is something you HAVE to share with your friends or family, it's impossible to keep it with you. You want to see people's reaction.Julian Richings is the worst choice to play a doctor ever. He is much better at portraying freak people, he doesn't have a "physician feeling". I expected much more from this movie, it is just a big disappointment to me.