A drama centered on a classical pianist who has been diagnosed with ALS and the brash college student who becomes her caregiver.
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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.
A terrific literary drama and character piece that shows how the process of creating art can be seen differently by those doing it and those looking at it from the outside.
The story, direction, characters, and writing/dialogue is akin to taking a tranquilizer shot to the neck, but everything else was so well done.
I don't care what anyone else says about the film. I'll just say Hilary Swank was incredible and totally believable in her role. I'm a 70 year old man. This was one of the best written and acted films I've ever seen. It also helped open my eyes a bit wider as to what an ALS victim, their family and their loved ones have to go though. I can't imagine why Hilary and this film did not receive more awards.
Kate Parker (Hilary Swank) is 35 with the perfect husband Evan (Josh Duhamel) and the perfect life. Her life is turned upside down by ALS. One and a half years later, she needs full-time help. She fires her nurse for treating her as a patient and hires Bec Cartwell (Emmy Rossum). Bec's life is a mess. Her best friend is Jill. Wil (Jason Ritter) has a crush on her but she's banging her married professor Liam (Julian McMahon). She's an aspiring singer with stage fright. Kate doesn't fit with her old friends Keely (Ali Larter) and Alyssa (Andrea Savage) anymore. She befriends John (Ernie Hudson) and his wife Marilyn (Loretta Devine) who also has ALS.The first most surprising thing is that Emmy Rossum is funny in this. She's doing Fiona from Shameless and she's good at it. Hilary Swank does her best impression of ALS. Once the comedy gets going, the heart can open up. The stage is set for the tear ducts to flow. I also like that Evan is a character with a couple of levels and Kate has a complicated dueling reaction. Bec's many personal problems are a little too broad. The film piles on her problems too thick. In the end, this is an unabashed tear-jerker and one must submit to the manipulations. Also the title is horrible. I get the meaning but it sounds like a bad self-help chant without knowing the story behind it. A better self-help phrase would be "Someone who sees me". At least, that sounds better.
The best movie I ever watched is my life is «you're not you». This is the only movie that made me cry at every time. There is so much interesting elements which need to be mentioned. To begin, the actors are amazing! Hillary Swank plays the role of a girl with the ALS and is perfectly capable of showing all the trials of this degenerative disease. She makes us feel like all of our little troubles are nothing in comparison of her state. Emmy Rossum is also a very good actress because she was playing a difficult role, a very not responsible girl that need to take care of a sick person. In the movie, the character that she is playing is growing a lot. I also appreciate the story in general. The concept of this movie was totally a new one and it is very relevant to watch. It makes us feel a variety of emotions like joy, compassion, sadness, gratitude and few others. You should definitely watch this film alone with some Kleenex and after share this artwork to your friends.
I have had this movie in my queue at Netflix for awhile now, and finally got around to watching it yesterday. Two-time Academy Award winner, Hilary Swank, stars as a classical pianist struck with ALS, and Emmy Rossum plays the brash college student who becomes her caregiver. Josh Duhamel plays her supportive hubbie not too sure about bringing this unpredictable new presence into their lives, but the two women become close very quickly as both their lives change significantly from their relationship. I notice something here- that the two lead actresses are expanding upong perhaps their best-known roles. Swank, as the bed-ridden subject of one of her two Oscar-winning roles, "Million Dollar Baby", and Emmy Rossum, as the self-sacrificing caregiver of TV's "Shameless". I'm not bashing the movie for this- in fact, I'm saying this is what works best for it. And Swank may be the Oscar winner, but it's Emmy Rossum who really steals the show in this movie. And wow!- what a cast (seems like a lot of them have worked in Clint Eastwood-directed films-??)- Ernie Hudson, Loretta Devine, Jason Ritter, Frances Fisher, Marcia Gay Harden, Ed Begley, Jr., and Julian McMahon of TV's "Nip/Tuck" round out the cast. \