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Summary: Very Touching Movie
Review: This is a fantastic movie staring Michael Keaton in a role I have never seen him in before, and the beautiful and talented Nicole Kidman as his wife. The movie is spectacular and defiantely a tear jerker. The movie is about a man played by Michael Keaton who is dying of Cancer, the only thing about this is that his son is about to be born. He struggles to survive long enough to clean up the mess in his families life, and to see his son born.
I could really relate to Michael's character in this film, at least the struggles with his family. I have a family on my father's side that some what resembles his, to where they don't understand me, or hardly know me at all and I feel like him sometimes trying to make them understand or to clean up messes etc.
The movie is very touching how Michael's character Bob videotapes everything he wants to tell his future baby, that he won't have a chance to tell in person so he video tapes everything. He also struggles to deal with him self as well as his wife, and child and family.
If your a softy you'll definately probably have a good cry at the end but it's very touching to say the least. The movie stars: Michael Keaton, Nicole Kidman, Queen Latifa, and some other notable guest stars. It's funny, sweet, romantic, and sad. It's about life.The DVD is okay not great but it's okay it does give you at least the presentation of having Full Screen or Widescreen, you can decide on the languages you wish, and the audio is very great! No flaws there at all. It also has theatrical trailers and some trailers to other movies, has talent files, and interactive menu's. All in all your typical DVD.
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Summary: Sad, slow, underrated movie
Review: This is one of the few movies that makes me cry every time I see it. My Life is depressing, honest, and beautiful, which makes it rather hard to watch. It is also well acted and well scripted, in a rather understated way, and it takes a while to get into. Once you get hooked, however, the movie is mesmerizing, as you watch Keaton's character's life and health disintegrate slowly. I can't recommend it highly enough, but it certainly is not a happy, feel-good movie.
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Summary: Sad, slow, underrated movie
Review: This is one of the few movies that makes me cry every time I see it. My Life is depressing, honest, and beautiful, which makes it rather hard to watch. It is also well acted and well scripted, in a rather understated way, and it takes a while to get into. Once you get hooked, however, the movie is mesmerizing, as you watch Keaton's character's life and health disintegrate slowly. I can't recommend it highly enough, but it certainly is not a happy, feel-good movie.
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Summary: This movie can make a man cry
Review: This movie helps remind the viewer that life itself is valuable. It is all too easy to get wrapped up in this American Rat race living. The story of Michael Keaton's battle with terminal cancer prompted me to begin looking inside myself for the keys to living. The Chinese healer instructs Keaton to look into his heart for the answers about his childhood pain. With all the distractions in society today, this advice seems so simple, but yet allows a person to get back to his or her simple nature. The movie is also about forgiveness and Keaton's emotional reunion with his parents had me sobbing. Men, this movie will help you to stop and smell the roses......
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Summary: Very touching
Review: This movie is a real tear jerker. I cry everytime I watch it. It makes you realize how short life can be and that you shouldn't take things for granted. You also realize that life and relationships are too precious to hold grudges.
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Summary: Absolutely Awesome Movie!
Review: This movie is another one of my favorites! The movie has purity, humor, drama, and lots of tears! It's such a good portrayal of a terminally ill man, with a family on the way. It clearly shows his (Michael Keaton) "roller-coaster" battle with his illness. A GREAT movie to watch with the one(s) you love!
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Summary: A Guaranteed Tear Jerker, But Still A Great Movie
Review: This movie is very good, but I have to admit that you have to be slightly masochistic in order to watch it. You realize just by reading the back of the DVD cover that the movie is going to be a tear jerker, and it doesn't disappoint in reaching this objective. This movie WILL make you sad. Michael Keaton plays a young and affluent corporate executive named Bob Jones who finds out that he only has a matter of months before he will die of cancer. Nicole Kidman plays his wife, Gail Jones, who is pregnant with their first child. Knowing that he doesn't have much longer to live, Bob faces the challenge of making sure that his unborn baby will know who his father was, as well as the added task of restoring his ties with his own parents and brother. He uses his camcorder to make videos for his baby. In these videos Bob covers many topics ranging from how to make an entrance into a room, how to play basketball, how to shave, and the obligatory discussion about sex. One of the most touching tapes Bob makes is when he talks to his child about how to feel if Gail ever decides to start dating again or get re-married. There are also some very poignant moments when Bob settles his anger and hurt feelings with his parents and his brother. Michael Keaton does a solid acting job in this movie. You'll admire the fact that he's high-strung and fights to maintain his health for as long as he can, along with the fact that he never laments his fate but simply braces for it. Nicole Kidman is also very good in her role as a supportive wife. Also worthy of mentioning is the performance by Haing S. Ngor as an allopathic doctor. These "alternative medicine" doctors are often portrayed in movies as people who make outrageous promises, but his character was different. I appreciated the fact that he eventually conceded that he couldn't help Bob fight his cancer, and the best thing Bob could do was to simply "get [his] house in order" before he died. If you suffer from depression (like me), this movie isn't for you. Don't watch it unless you're ready to possibly shed a few tears. Though I hate to feel sad, I'd have to say that I enjoyed this movie very much.
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Summary: The power sneaks up on you
Review: This movie sneaks up on you. I saw it with my girlfriend and therefore, as she saw it before many times, knew the plot. I thought Nicole Kidman did a fine job but was miscast and could not therefore connect with many of the necessary nuances of her character and their relationship. It had some powerful things to say about family realtionships, the doctor/patient relationship, hope, forgiveness, the actual nature and expression of love, the craft and the art of letting go as opposed to the contrivances of such, and the love a man has for his family, his wife, and his child. But all those themes, when brought together in concert with some virtuosic moments of acting, have a synergistic effect. Michael Keaton's performance and that of the supporting cast take the power of the powerful themes they are given responsibility for and say something, do something, with such poignancy as to actually rise above the inherent weaknesses in the script and the cinematography. They turn the movie itself into a symbol of what or who one loves and how one should love: taking all the flaws not just into consideration, but loving them as part of what makes them- and life- beautiful. That is why, I believe, it is impossible for people not to have seen the many flaws in the movie, but still feel little need to point them out or dwell on them. By the time this movie comes close to connecting with the major source of pain and/or crises in your personal life, you are already sold and have started falling in love with some or most of the characters. Needless to say, when it does connect for you... I began watching the movie feeling only mildly moved (while my girlfriend cried, again), but wept quietly for about an hour after it was over (long after she was done). A very special, poignant film.
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Summary: My Life
Review: This movie was wonderfully developed. Acting is excellent. I cried like mad at the end, but I still forced myself to watch it again, and again. Nicole Kidman is wonderful in all of her movies (YES I HAVE SEEN ALL OF THEM!) but next to Practical Magic, and Malice this has got to be her best.
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Summary: A fantastic movie.....a must see
Review: Thought Keaton and Kidman did a great job of acting in this tear jerker....
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