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Reviews Counted:100
Fresh:65
Rotten:35
Average Rating:6.3/10
Consensus: Sarah Polley keeps this production afloat with her moving performance.
Runtime: 1 hr 46 mins
Genre: Dramas
Synopsis: Ann is 23, she has 2 daughters, a husband who spends more time unemployed than working, a mother who hates the world, a father who has spent the last ten years in jail, a strange predilection for... [More]
Starring: Sarah Polley, Mark Ruffalo, Scott Speedman, Leonor Watling
Director: Isabel Coixet
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.
Intelligent and affecting as the film is, it buckles under the weight of overexplicitness, a tendency to say more than it needs to.
The movie is affecting, in its own quiet way, and beautifully acted.
This contemplative drama manages to dodge mawkish potholes to emerge as a strangely life-affirming work.
It's hard to take this movie seriously. It's the cinematic equivalent of dotting your i's with a big heart, a very youngish view of life and death in which everything is too neatly wrapped up with a bow.
The performances are determinedly low-key, and Ms. Coixet directs even the most charged scenes in a cool, almost affectless style. But the implicit narcissism of the film's title is embraced without really being examined.
Top CriticA splendid cast, coupled with Isabel Coixet's deeply committed writing and direction, goes a long way to make this movie affecting to watch even it if doesn't hold up well to reflection once the lights go up.
Top CriticMy Life Without Me would not work without [Sarah Polly].
Life constantly rises above the mundane, mainly because there's so much that's incredibly touching and believable about Polley's character.
Top CriticWhat is most infuriating about this film is how the audience is expected to see Anne’s selfishness as some kind of personal heroism.
Writer-director Isabel Coixet and actress Sarah Polley elevate a story we think we've seen before into truly touching, human drama.
My Life Without Me is a bold and honest film about a young woman who is forced to number her days and to fill them with as much pleasure and meaning as she can.
This isn't a poignant drama about courage and imagination -- it's a contrived fantasy about courage and imagination.
Polley's performance is characteristically honest.
Transforming [Ann] into a woman who wants what she wants and reaches for it now, Polley not only subverts cliché but humanizes one of the most hard-heartedly malicious phrases in the American language -- trailer trash.
One of the oldest weepie plots in the book...doesn't quite transcend the essential staleness of its premise, but thanks to [Polley] it comes very close to doing so.
A movie about terminal illness that even the Lifetime Television Network might reject.
A tearjerker that falters in its attempts at deep thoughts.
My Life Without Me is definitely one of the better movies of the year, filled with great performances, introspection, emotional tangents, a deeper appreciation of the human spirit, and most vividly, a re-affirmation of the value of one's life.
Ann is more an enigma than a heroine.
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