Best movie ever!

A brilliant film that helped define a genre

It's an amazing and heartbreaking story.

There is definitely an excellent idea hidden in the background of the film. Unfortunately, it's difficult to find it.

Combining eccentricity with serendipity, Still Breathing is still, almost ten years after it was first released, one of the best fate-filled and wistfully magical love stories of all time. Take one somewhat unusual street performer who is mystically drawn towards his soul mate - a hardened con artist miles away, and then back their journey towards, away and towards one another with a gorgeous soundtrack that moves effortlessly from Chopin to Carly Simon, and you've got one very touching if not markedly unique story. Fraser is great as the slightly odd lovestruck suitor as is Going, who clearly portrays her struggle with losing the grip on her tough anti-emotion veneer as it starts to crumble under Fraser's enticing conviction. The lovely locale of San Antonio, TX also adds to the charm of this special film that will leave you wondering if one soul is truly destined to be, exclusively, with another.

I'll watch this wonderful film anytime it comes up on Dish or cable. It was captivating, yet low key; weird, yet very sane, even with the dreams.It was the first time I had ever seen Joanna Going - an exceptionally beautiful woman. I have seen her since in several other films, but she was perfectly cast in this movie.This low key movie is a very old fashioned film, yet again at the same time, very modern. It harks back to romantic films of the 30s and 40s, but I can't say which film. It has that feel.Brendan Fraser's character's stress on family and his relationship with his grandmother was something that is sorely lacking in films of today.

The logic of the true love is braking the walls between the standard way of living and the wish for filling a peace of the soul, if there is something in the world that can be worth, is to find it. The movie was made for people with very high sensibility, and the real message could be unprovided for others. Thanks to the producers of this film.

Cynics and idiots have dismissed this movie as "unrealistic" or "a boring chick flick." Too bad. They just don't get it.This is a romantic comedy in the old style, where a lovable eccentric dreams of his one true love and goes to seek her out. Naturally, she turns out to be fallen woman with a heart of gold. Where in the twenties this might have lead to "zany comedy" this is more like a poem--soft and romantic and sweet. Visually, musically, emotionally it is beautiful--not stunningly beautiful like a sunset, but warm and beautiful and familliar like like a hidden garden you happen upon for the first time, sure you have dreamt about a place just like this. We would all like to believe (at least I hope we would) in true love.The folks who dismiss this movie are like the heroine, Ros: cynical, hard edged and business like, with no room for dreams or fantasies in their cold cruel realistic worlds. But in the end Ros gets it. She allows herself to dream and to believe. Pity those morons who don't.Movies aren't about "realism." They're about fantasy. This one rocks.