A young woman conceals the fact of her terminal cancer to live her life with a passion she never had before.A young woman conceals the fact of her terminal cancer to live her life with a passion she never had before.A young woman conceals the fact of her terminal cancer to live her life with a passion she never had before.
- Awards
- 16 wins & 15 nominations
Debbie Harry
- Ann's Mother
- (as Deborah Harry)
- Director
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- TriviaOriginally the film was to feature Ann recording tapes for her father and for Dr. Thompson, in which she forgives her father for being absent during her childhood, and tells Dr. Thompson that his seeing patients as people isn't a bad thing before thanking him for keeping her impending death a secret. The ending montage was also supposed to feature a video clip of Ann's dad making shoes for his granddaughters from prison with tears in his eyes. These things never even made it to the filming stage, probably because of the length of the production itself.
- GoofsWhen Ann the neighbor is talking about the conjoined twins, she says one was a girl and the other was a boy. Conjoined twins are formed from the same egg, so is generally understood that both twins should be of the same gender. However if the egg is fertilized by a male sperm but during cell division only the X chromosome is duplicated it could result in monozygotic twins of different sexes . This results in one normal male (XY) and one female with Turner syndrome.
- ConnectionsFeatures Mildred Pierce (1945)
Featured review
"Life" sentence: Polley is exquisitely perfect
MY LIFE WITHOUT ME (2003) ***1/2 Sarah Polley, Mark Ruffalo, Scott Speedman, Deborah Harry, Amanda Plummer, Leonor Watling, Julian Richings, Maria de Medeiros, Jessica Amlee, Kenya Jo Kennedy, Alfred Molina. Polley gives a remarkable performance as a young wife and mother who is diagnosed with terminal cancer and with the few precious months left to her own devices she decides not to tell anyone but instead attempts to live life by her own guidelines including taking a lover (Ruffalo in a genial turn) and setting her family up with a new mother figure in the form of new next door neighbor Watling (who gives a heartrending speech about her occupation as a nurse) and in the process realizing just how important it is to live life each day as if it were indeed your last. Director Isabel Coixet adapts Nanci Kincaid's short story 'Pretending the Bed is a Raft' with clear-eyed sharpness allowing the ultimate heartbreak to occur off-screen and instead focusing on the funny and poignant pangs her protagonist silently endures. A real gem that reminded me of the '70s golden age of indies.
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- george.schmidt
- Oct 14, 2003
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- Also known as
- Mi vida sin mí
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Box office
- Budget
- €2,000,000 (estimated)
- Gross US & Canada
- $400,948
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $40,515
- Sep 28, 2003
- Gross worldwide
- $9,781,854
- Runtime1 hour 46 minutes
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- Aspect ratio
- 1.85 : 1
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