Wonderful character development!

Good concept, poorly executed.

Fantastic!

It's a movie as timely as it is provocative and amazingly, for much of its running time, it is weirdly funny.

Watch this and find out! The lead actors playing the elderly couple are extraordinary. Not only about what marriage used to mean, commitment and deep intimacy and complimentary gender roles, And how well so many men and women used to work together on their own for survival. But also a profound and clear picture of what we are losing in society, independence, personal responsibility, self growth, creativity and the satisfaction of knowing yourself and doing things on your own. And how it is nearly impossible or even illegal to live that way today. A journey back when D.I.Y a necessity not a luxury. And all of it without some need to believe some hocus pocus Love commitment and personal self security based on your ability to actually do things for yourself. Almost lost nowadays.

I look for films about real love--not the fake sex, not the criminal partners in love, not the mere adolescent sick and/or dying kind of love, but the real stuff. This movie has it. The troubles, the frustrations, the commitment, the honesty, the self-sacrifice, the interferences both kind and unkind. The weight of regulations (and the benefit of Canadian health care!). This film catches--and shares--the meaning of long-term love. It is clearly a much, much under-rated film, and deserves a showing wherever people can show films! It would be a good movie for widespread showing in the USA to counter some of the somewhat hokey "religious" films, as this film about love and hope shows love and hope in action, without preachin'.

Director/writer Michael McGowan has done a brilliant job here, not that the seasoned actors James Cromwell and Geneviève Bujold didn't make it possible; they will leave you in awe by their acting.The story is based on true events and people, which makes it all that more compelling, but how simplicity and basic reality often needs no added flavouring and no dramatization as it alone can touch you at the core, is what McGowan made his script to be and let the actors do their thing. That is what and why I call it brilliant. Craig and Irene Morrison played by Cromwell and Bujold are as endearing as any couple of any movie you've ever seen, more so if it's possible. If you felt or believed seniors did not have a sex life, think again; but it makes for romance as it should be and love as it can and ought to, caring devotion being the driving force of their relation.The key characters are sympathetic and embody all the great qualities one would want from people, real people. Even the children of Craig and Irene who at first may not seem so sympathetic, of course turn out to be just as caring and loving as their parents. The only unsympathetic character, if you discount the ambiguous relation Craig has with neighbour Chester, a friend and a very good one, also something you discover with time, is that of city bureaucrat Rick Daigle, played by Jonathan Potts. He's not evil by any means but just the typical face of bureaucracy as we expect it, too impersonal to be sympathetic and of course the foe a story needs. Potts does his portrayal as well as it needed to be, without turning the movie into what it's not; again what I also attribute to good writing. The IMDb full storyline, by Huggo, has all you need to know about the movie's plot (click the Plot Summary link, below the Storyline paragraph) and I suggest you read it. I'll just add one slight spoiler by saying it ends on a very positive note, one for which you'll breathe a sigh of relief. It's not the first movie to deal with the subject of Dementia, not the overwhelming 'motif' of the movie, but it was in my humble opinion a movie that showed the kindest and most heartwarming way actors have treated how their characters live with it. Critics and moviegoers alike have given the movie good to high ratings and praise, justifiably so, to Bujold and Cromwell for their work. I could not agree more strongly. The camera work is done so well it seemingly draws you to the subtle craft of Cromwell. Now that I have mentioned it, you'll have a chance to notice it when you go see or rent the movie, and I recommend you do. You will not regret watching this movie, especially if you are doing so with anyone you care about. Try to hold back your tears if you can, but I expect anyone with an ounce of feelings will find that a challenge.

Somehow IMDb has calculated a score of only 7.1 for Still Mine. When I check that against Rotten Tomatoes, here is the surprising result: Professional Reviewers 93%, Audience 87%. The truth is much closer to the Rotten Tomatoes score than the IMDb score.I won't repeat all the tributes given here by other reviewers. It's such a pleasure to see a film made with grown-ups in mind, a sensitive story based on real life and everyday occurrences. And, of course, you marvel at the outstanding acting of the main players.It's hard to criticize the casting of James Cromwell in the lead role. He is magnificent. Yet in such a Canadian film--when his pride is confronted by narrow-minded bureaucrats, he never raises his voice, says "Have a good day" with just the lightest touch of sarcasm, does not burn down the house, or return to the government office with a shotgun--I had the niggling wish that the role had gone to a Canadian actor. Christopher Plummer might have been up for the job. But the thought of the job done by Cromwell makes such a reservation seem like a ridiculous, maybe narrow-minded quibble.Listen to the score, too. It is quiet and subtle, very distinctive, at times haunting, sometimes sad, always barely at the threshold of your consciousness. I seem to remember much use of horns, but they are subdued, and set off against an unusual mix of other instruments.Do see this film if you ever get the chance.