Critic Reviews

• Robert Abele, Los Angeles Times

  Blind to the fact that it should be rising up against its own formulaic kind.

• Peter Debruge, Variety

  Parise no doubt intends the pic's attention to the disease -- plus animal adoption and fair trade coffee -- to be socially enlightening, but it feels suspiciously like sympathy-mongering.

• David Nusair, Reel Film Reviews

  ...ultimately establishes itself as an affable endeavor that benefits substantially from the charismatic work of its two leads.

• Matt Pais, Metromix.com

  Achieves the holy trinity of painful earnestness, combining cute animals, sick teenagers and an idealistic belief in love and goodness that's actually deceptively judgmental.

• Jules Brenner, Cinema Signals

  Written, directed, acted-in and produced by Parise, she's proven her creds as a one-woman employment agent. But, by now, she should be picking up that directing is a weak spot.

• Sam Sweet, L.A. Weekly

  More farce might have served the film well; as Parise draws from a playbook of medical melodrama and romantic-comedies clichés, her moral about living outside the box becomes harder and harder to swallow.

• Brian Orndorf, BrianOrndorf.com

  There's an overwhelming and quite repellent amount of gloss applied to the finished product, yet underneath it all are many scenes of honest emotional confession, distributed through wonderful atypical performances.

• Mark Keizer, Boxoffice Magazine

  Considering the talent assembled, the only audience draw here is the prospect of getting out of the rain.

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