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Plot: Based on Anna Quindlen's bestselling novel, this is a mother-daughter and father-daughter story, two for the price of one. But director Carl Franklin also tries to inject a police-mystery angle that i...( read more  )t neither needs nor will support. Renee Zellweger plays a young writer on the rise, who has finally gotten her break for a New York magazine. While home for a birthday party for her nearly famous writer father (William Hurt), she learns that her mother (Meryl Streep) has been diagnosed with cancer. Then her father does the unthinkable: He all but commands her to put her career on hold to take care of her mother and nurse her through her illness. Dad, a popular college professor who has never gotten the literary acclaim he always believed he deserved, essentially checks out--and daughter must play parent to her mother. Strong performances by Streep and Zellweger give this parent-child relationship the heart--and the anger--of the real thing, while Hurt seems slightly disembodied as the self-involved father whose needs have dominated both women. Still, the detective-story aspect (the film is told in flashback, as the cops try to discover whether someone slipped Mom a fatal dose of morphine) is a construct that could have been done without. --Marshall Fine

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  January 30, 2008

  Oh my, my, amazing, makes you think very very sad I mean sad, I never cried so much in a movie before. Now one of my favorite movies

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  January 15, 2008

  The review by Marshall Fine is pretty accurate. The writing, acting and direction are top notch. My mom died of cancer, so it wasn't an easy film to watch. This movie has a lot to say, and what it has to say is worthwhile.

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  January 1, 2008

  I cried.
  
  I rewatched this movie the other night and I still found it incredibly sad. Another thing about it is, I always wonder how Zellweger looks so cute in movies and soo very DIFFERENT in "real" pictures. It's like two different people.

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  December 25, 2007

  This film is beautiful in the way it deals with terminal illness honestly and truthfully. I can't get through the last act of this film without shedding some tears.

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  October 27, 2007

  Very inspiring, heartwarming, and sad. A film for the family... This was a film recommended by my teacher back in Grade 6.

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  Meryl Streep
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  Renée Zellweger
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  William Hurt
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  Nicky Katt

• Rated: (R)
• Directed by: Carl Franklin
• Genres: Drama
• Released: September 18, 1998
• DVD Released: August 10, 1999

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