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Alison Elliott, Amanda Peet, Blair Brown

Two people face a seemingly insurmountable obstacle that stands between them and a last chance at love.

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PG-13, 1 hr. 42 min.

Directed by: Ed Stone

Release Date: September 12, 2006

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DVD Release Date: September 11, 2007

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  • dreamfaeries
    August 10, 2009
    dreamfaeries
    Sad, but beautiful... AWH!!!
  • Nutterjr
    May 27, 2008
    Nutterjr
    yet another love story , carefully crafted, well acted and surprisingly positive albeit it's subject matter.
  • arthurnhk
    November 23, 2009
    arthurnhk
    to end with christmas is just too cliche
  • larkart
    July 24, 2009
    larkart
    A real tear jerker (4 tissues)! Very well acted, surprises and good message.
  • Sezin
    July 8, 2009
    Sezin
    Jeez this was a fricking sad movie.
  • Gaabby
    July 6, 2009
    Gaabby
    A fantastic movie. Very sad
  • Xakleja
    July 3, 2009
    Xakleja
    sad and a bad ending
  • sonic5
    June 8, 2009
    sonic5
    When watching this movie I was not expecting Phoenix's (Amanda Peet) situation. I cannot imagine two people finding each other after a lifetime of mediocre events just to lose each other. The most amazing moments of their lives were spent together. That's what they remembered, th...( read more)e good times. If this movie was actually happening to someone I cannot imagine what their life would be like. I certainly wouldn't take the news with as much calm as they both did. To accept you are going to die and you haven't even had the chance to do all the things you wanted to in life ... just heartbreaking.
    In the beginning of the movie, I could not understand why Phoenix refused to get involved with Griffin ( Dermot Mulroney). People say all the time you only have so much time to live your life and you never know when even that limited time can be taken away from you. You need to make the most of it. I could understand later her desire to say away from him perhaps in fear that she might finally have something in her life she would be afraid of losing, afraid of leaving behind. Even Griffin impressed me with his attitude towards death. We all, after all, fear it to some magnitude. Yet, even with the ease they both accepted their inevitable deaths they also gave in to unimaginable anger at their fate at one point or another. I think I particularly appreciated the fact the ending is not marked with their deaths. It is marked with the memories they both shared, the time they both spent together and the amazing connection they both had. It is not often we meet someone who totally understands who we are in the threads of our soul. Someone who understands our deepest desires. Someone who can read our soul like a book off a shelf. To Griffin that was Phoenix. To Phoenix that was Griffin.
  • wolvesevolve
    June 2, 2009
    wolvesevolve
    the rating just goes to show what a closet chick flick fiend I am :P

    actually this film is quirky and an interesting twist on the usual "chick flick"...with Dermot Mulroney portraying Griffin, a middle-age divorcee who finds out he's dying from cancer and only has a year of life...( read more) left. In coming to terms with his prognosis, he attends a psychology college class on dying...where he meets Phoenix (played by Amanda Peet), a school administrator. Griffin is not exactly having an easy time w/ his situation (he's refusing any treatment), and one way he's dealing with it is by becoming a bit sociopathic and daring. One such way he manifested this was to ask Phoenix after just meeting in the class out to dinner...which she makes clear she won't meet him.

    But of course she does show up...and gets the ball rolling with the story where Griffin is on his little trip to fulfill a "bucketlist", though of little crazy things like breaking into buildings, staying up to watch the sunrise, trainhopping. Phoenix isn't really sure what to make of Griffin and very reluctant to really start a relationship of any kind...there's a brilliant way the script makes her character very wishywashy, uncertain of what to do with this strange man. And of course in their adventures either of them hardly know anything about the other, not even their first names. But she does give in and a romance does blossom.

    Though just when you think things might become "normal", the big twist comes to pass when Phoenix finds books in Griffin's apt about dying and terminal illness...she reacts very negatively, storming away....she thinks Griffin is toying with her....because as it turns out she also has cancer. So it quickly comes to pass that they reveal their conditions, and this turns into a truly bittersweet love story.

    Griffin & Phoenix is a well done personal reflection on life and dying, of how difficult it can be to find peace of mind and heart. Amanda Peet's acting got a little annoying to me at times but at other times she shined. Mulroney did a great job portraying a lost soul who eventually finds happiness and contentment. I think the winner here is the script...and while dialogue got a little clunky at times, there was a spectacular way in which it captured two complex characters, spinning it into a very believable love story with its quirks and devastating theme.
  • gellibean2004
    April 30, 2009
    gellibean2004
    haayy!!! what a movie!

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  • nick2261
    September 11, 2007
    nick2261
    Cried, cried, very touchy movie
  • PinkBohemianSweetie
    June 18, 2007
    PinkBohemianSweetie
    Amanda Peet is a hottie. I just bought the DVD a while ago...can't wait to see it later. ^*^
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