Michael Keaton, Nicole Kidman

Screenwriter Bruce Joel Rubin (author of the fanciful Ghost) made his directorial debut with this more serious confrontation with the realities of death. Michael Keaton plays an advertising exe...( read more  read more... )cutive who learns he is dying even as his wife (Nicole Kidman) is pregnant. The film beautifully focuses on his anger over everything: the unfinished business of his life and the probability he'll never meet his child. The late Dr. Haing S. Ngor (The Killing Fields) is terrific as a doctor who helps Keaton's character to recognize the corrosiveness of his rage and to let go. The film is a heartbreaker but truly cathartic for anyone who has felt the blunt pain of losing someone close. Keaton is outstanding. --Tom Keogh

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PG-13, 117 min.

Directed by: Bruce Joel Rubin

Release Date: November 12, 1993

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DVD Release Date: April 24, 2001

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  • September 29, 2009
    Enjoyable but leaves to many unanswered questions.
  • October 5, 2007
    This is the one film that can break you down into tears every time you watch it. It has a really touching theme as well. The theme is of course, make it count, and that is exactly what Bob, Michael Keaton, does. I think the most beautiful part of the film is when Bob notifies his...( read more) wife at the amusement park that it was his due date for death and that he was living on borrowed time. Living on borrowed time from the prayer he made earlier in the film. Michael Keaton gives an absolutely killer performance as a businessman dying of untreatable cancer. The tagline to this movie is so true, when it comes to the end of human life, ?every moment counts'. We all need to do this, as we never know when our last day on this earth could be upon us.
  • November 5, 2006
    great idea, great acting
  • April 12, 2006
    Flixster seems to have found one of two films that still has the ability to make me cry. Michael Keaton rules. Where the hell is his Oscar?
  • December 12, 2007
    A beautiful movie!
  • November 9, 2009
    I love a good tear jerker.
  • October 31, 2009
    !Comercial or Stupid! :|
  • September 15, 2009
    Worth it to see Keaton.
  • August 29, 2009
    Nicole Kidman's acting has come a long way since this film. Michael Keaton CANNOT do drama. It's just not there. This may have contributed to Kidman's less than stellar performance. It was a good story, but it could have been MUCH better. I liked the film, but I wouldn't recommen...( read more)d it to just anyone. If you pass on this one, you're not going to be missing much.
  • August 12, 2009
    Just after I saw this movie, all I wanted to do was to take a plane and go see my father.

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  • KARENCHRISTINA
    August 9, 2007
    I love the Story....His courage and the support he gets from his Wife...Just Beautiful!!!!!!!!

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