Such a frustrating disappointment

People are voting emotionally.

Load of rubbish!!

Very good movie overall, highly recommended. Most of the negative reviews don't have any merit and are all pollitically based. Give this movie a chance at least, and it might give you a different perspective.

This one has all the mood music and static shots of the typical tear jerker, but it doesn't have a character you can really care that much about. I suppose the point is that she decides to live for herself for the first time in her life. The thing is, though, that her home life is shown as being pretty great. She's not abused or mistreated or taken for granted. Her husband and children are great. So it makes some of her actions kind of hard to understand or bear with.I didn't get as involved as I expected to. Not being able to feel the character's emotions so much made the movie feel melodramatic and over- the-top. It never reaches the heights it aims for, despite the talents of Polley, Ruffalo, Plummer, and Alfred Molina in a great, small role.

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.

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.

Working-class wife and devoted mother to two small girls finds out she has ovarian tumors which have spread, leaving her with only two months to live; she decides not to tell anyone her prognosis, instead writing out a list of things to do before she dies and making voice-tapes to her loved ones expressing her emotions. In the lead, Sarah Polley is a good crier; her line readings are sometimes sweet and sometimes annoying, and she has a bad habit of wiping her hair away from her face and tucking it behind one ear (all the while stammering over her sentences: "Actually...it's, um, like..."). Still, her natural, mild manner is embraceable, and she works well with Mark Ruffalo as an unconventional prince. Polley's backyard-trailer family is a bit too good to be true, yet the movie--which is really about living without bitterness--gets its point across nicely in many intimate scenes. Polley's voice-over (waxing poetic about the senselessness of material goods, about loneliness, about regret) is a clichéd habit picked up from the indie-film circuit, yet the finale is quite moving regardless. **1/2 from ****