Mark
Ruffalo, Maria De Medeiros, Jessica Amlee, Kenya Jo
Kennedy, Leonor Watling, Sarah Polley, Scott Speedman,
Deborah Harry, Alfred Molina, Amanda Plummer |
Directed
by: Isabel Coixet
Written by: Isabel Coixet, Nanci Kincaid
Produced by: Pedro Almodóvar, Agustin Almodovar,
Gordon McLennan
Distributor: |
US:
09/26/03
UK: 07/11/03 |
Ann has 2 young 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, and a job as a night janitor in a university that
she could never attend in the daytime. They all live
in a trailer, on the yard of her mother’s house,
in the outskirts of Vancouver. However, this gray existence
changes completely when, after a medical check-up, a
doctor tells Ann that she has very little time left
on this earth. Learning that she has hardly two months
to live, Ann decides to keep her condition a secret,
and refuses to tell anybody--not even her husband--about
her time remaining. She does not want people around
her with long faces, and obsessed with her approaching
death. Ann starts to make a list of things to do before
dying, which she completes little by little. The list
targets a wide range of things to which she must attend,
including carrying out tasks like: saying exactly what
she thinks to certain people; as well as getting herself
some fake fingernails. Unexpectedly, Ann discovers an
appetite for life that drives her to live her last days
with a sensual and furious intensity she had not known
before. During this short time, she prepares her daughters
for a life without her; she meets a solitary wounded
man, whom she seduces; and most importantly, Ann faces
what remains of her life with a certain steadfast courage
she never knew she possessed. |
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"It's
all me, me me, with you!"
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