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. Twenty-three-year-old Ann (Polley), who lives with her out-of-work husband (Scott Speedman) and two young daughters (Jessica Amlee, Kenya Jo Kennedy) in a cramped mobile home parked in her mother's (Harry) backyard, learns that her short, difficult life is about to come to an end. After experiencing sharp stomach pains while working her night-shift job on a cleaning crew — she makes a doctor's appointment. Instead of another pregnancy, tests reveal tumors ...
Released:
2003
Rated:
R
Length:
116 mins