My Life Without Me

Year: 2003

Actors: Mark Ruffalo, Leonor Watling, Sarah Polley, Amanda Plummer

Duration: 106 min

Young Ann has a simple, but happy life with her husband, Don, and her two daughters, Penny and Patsy. Ann works as a janitor in the night-shift, cleaning at a University, Don builds swimming pools and they live in a trailer in Ann's mother's backyard. When Ann goes to the doctor expecting to be pregnant, she is informed that indeed she has a terminal cancer. She hides the information from her family and prepares for her death, making a list of ten outstanding subjects in her life, including preparing tapes for the birthdays of her daughters until they are eighteen years old; eating and drinking whatever she wants; telling only the truth; finding a new wife for her husband; visiting her father in the penitentiary; and making love with another man.—Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Genre: Action   Drama   Romance