My Life Without Me (2003)
Average Rating: 6.3/10
Reviews Counted: 98
Fresh: 63 | Rotten: 35
Sarah Polley keeps this production afloat with her moving performance.
Average Rating: 6.1/10
Critic Reviews: 33
Fresh: 19 | Rotten: 14
Sarah Polley keeps this production afloat with her moving performance.
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Isabel Coixet's Mi vida sin mi (My Life Without Me) is a tale of a woman dying before her time. Sarah Polley plays Ann, a 24-year-old mother of two. Ann is married to Don (Scott Speedman), and they live near Ann's mother (Deborah Harry), who is bitter about the fact that Ann's father is serving a ten-year prison sentence. Ann learns that she has only a few months to live. She makes a series of goals to complete before her time on Earth comes to an end. Among her accomplishments are taking a
Cast
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Sarah Polley
Ann -
Scott Speedman
Don -
Deborah Harry
Ann's mother -
Mark Ruffalo
Lee -
Leonor Watling
Ann -
Amanda Plummer
Laurie -
Julian Richings
Dr. Thompson -
Maria de Medeiros
Hairdresser -
Jessica Amlee
Penny -
Kanya Jo Kennedy
Patsy -
Alfred Molina
Ann's father
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All Critics (105) | Top Critics (35) | Fresh (66) | Rotten (35) | DVD (10)
My Life Without Me is not a gentle film. Insistent and unforgettable, it wounds on the inside, and the scars feel fresh for some time.
Top CriticCoixet doesn't make her lead character compelling, or likable.
My Life Without Me only has one way to go, and it makes some dippy turns getting there. But Polley makes the trip worth it.
A good example of how Polley elevates nearly everything in which she appears.
Polley's performance is pitch-perfect, and that the world described herein -- glazed with humor as well as melancholy -- is devoid of phony sentiment.
Depressingly unmoving, thanks to unaffecting performances and a story that holds no surprises.
A gigantically amoral cliche of a film.
Fascinating.
(...) Una de las películas más hermosas que se hayan filmado sobre eso tan extraño y tan temido que es el tiempo que queda antes de morir.
A grande força (do filme) reside na poderosa performance da jovem Sarah Polley.
Watching My Life Without Me is enervating. Coixet is so determined not to indulge the story's potential for sentiment that she overcompensates on the dreariness.
This is a film for people who like to cry, and there's a contrived element that's inherent to the beautiful-death genre. Still, Polley is the film's saving grace...
My Life without Me is a nearly perfect film for a very specific audience, one that likes their movies quirky, independent, and with humor darker than Starbucks coffee.
Realistic and thought-provoking
Plagued by phony poetic moments and self-conscious quirkiness (Maria de Medeiros appears as a braid-wearing hair stylist obsessed with Milli Vanilli...)
Audience Reviews for My Life Without Me
Super Reviewer
Thankfully, this did'nt turn out to be the usual tear-jerking melodrama. Emotions were decently real and was well acted throughout.
Super Reviewer
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- Lee: Lee: When you look at someone,really look at them, you might see fifty percent of who they really are. And wanting to know the rest-that's what destroys everything.
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- Ann: If you don't kiss me right now I'm gonna scream. [She screams, he kisses her]
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Foreign Titles
- Mein Leben ohne mich (DE)
- Ma vie sans moi (FR)
