Curapedi I cannot think of one single thing that I would change about this film. The acting is incomparable, the directing deft, and the writing poignantly brilliant.

Taraparain Tells a fascinating and unsettling true story, and does so well, without pretending to have all the answers.

Invaderbank The film creates a perfect balance between action and depth of basic needs, in the midst of an infertile atmosphere.

Jenna Walter The film may be flawed, but its message is not.

brightsides Just watched this film for the first time last night. I am continually amazed by the acting chops of both Sarah Polley and Mark Ruffalo. She has the difficult task in this movie, as in one of her other films, The Sweet Hereafter, of portraying someone who has a difficult decision to make. Not necessarily that she makes the right choice by society's standards, but it is HER choice to make. She plays a loving mother, wife and daughter who, at 24, receives the most tragic news about her health. Because of her choice to keep it a secret she is faced with processing this tragic blow without support from family or friends. One can only imagine the difficulty in going about you day to day life with this knowledge and the stress of keeping it hidden. But in doing so she is able to have an experience she feels she missed out on because of her station in life, having children so young and being married to their dad. Her husband talks about taking the family on a beach vacation as they never get out much (most likely due to financial reasons).He tells her "You never complain", then kisses her neck. It's the tender moments like these between husband and wife, and later with her lover, that bring a sense of yearning to the film. The film captures the lives of those that fall through the cracks of life, they are not rich or beautiful, just hard working folks struggling to make ends meet, dealing the cards they've been dealt.

Je re People are unfortunately informed by movies - I hope anyone thinking of copying the not-telling part of this storyline really thinks again and take soundings from their oncologist etc. Its only anecdotal, one family I've experience of - but it didn't work for them.Concealing the cancer meant that instead of it being something those left behind could adjust to with the person still there - to cry with, give support to etc. Instead it became a sudden death which is much harder to deal with once they've died.In the film the character makes tapes of what she wants to say. But nobody gets the chance to tell her how precious she is to them. They're denied the chance to give support. Denied the chance to say how much they love her. Denied the chance to say and do all the things they'd want to do if they knew that person were dying. And left with a far more sudden death to cope with afterwards.There are other criticisms I have of this film but they aren't important compared to this central premise being such a very dangerous one. Don't tell anybody and it'll be fine for them after you've died - NOOOO!

Raul Faust Well, I think I'm the first reviewer that didn't like this film.You know, it is about a young girl who discovers she's gonna die in 2 months and doesn't tell anyone. The writers could have noticed that she didn't change a thing in her behavior, which is extremely improbable. EVERYONE who discovers the death is coming soon tend to enjoy life and be very sad when bed time comes. But in "My Life Without Me", the girl is the same before and after; sad/depressed all the time and has no charisma at all.Something impressing in this movie is that people are talking to each other and all of a sudden one of them leaves the table and say "I have to go". And that's it, no goodbye, no brief period before leaving, they just "have to go". Where does everybody have to go?Also, I don't believe someone who is about to die is capable to keep it as a secret for everyone. This is something you HAVE to share with your friends or family, it's impossible to keep it with you. You want to see people's reaction.Julian Richings is the worst choice to play a doctor ever. He is much better at portraying freak people, he doesn't have a "physician feeling". I expected much more from this movie, it is just a big disappointment to me.

atanas_n1-1 a great movie about real people, beautifully played, very well shot the lines the characters got are great too, as are the characters them self it's interesting how the movie manages not to drag you down, how it manages to stay positive, while the main character is dying ... beautiful - watch it if you get iti watched it by incident ... just cached it on TV and the title sounded interesting to me. now i'm very happy i stayed with this movie--- Ann: "Now you feel like you wanna take all the drugs in the world, but all the drugs in the world aren't gonna change the feeling that your whole life's been a dream and it's only now that you're waking up."