[.ca] My Life (Widescreen/Full Screen)

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Screenwriter Bruce Joel Rubin (author of the fanciful Ghost) made his directorial debut with this more serious confrontation with the realities of death. Michael Keaton plays an advertising executive who learns he is dying even as his wife (Nicole Kidman) is pregnant. The film beautifully focuses on his anger over everything: the unfinished business of his life and the probability he'll never meet his child. The late Dr. Haing S. Ngor (The Killing Fields) is terrific as a doctor who helps Keaton's character to recognize the corrosiveness of his rage and to let go. The film is a heartbreaker but truly cathartic for anyone who has felt the blunt pain of losing someone close. Keaton is outstanding. --Tom Keogh

Sad, slow, underrated movie:
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.

Have a FULL box of kleenex ready:
I knew this movie was suppose to be a "tear jerker", I wasn't prepared for the magnitude of it. Having said that, I should also say it really made me think. As Keaton resolves his feelings about his life and how he's lived it, I learned a lot about my own. Sounds corny but I think I came away a better person after watching this one.

Great movie:
I must say this movie is very sad. I do not like to cry but I cried at the end. This movie is about a man who gives all he can to his family. He makes one wish to live to see his child being born. I have to say the ending to this movie really moved me as a person. I rate this movie a 5 because the whole movie was wonderful. I recommend this movie to anyone.

Get out the kleenex.:
The title is enough. This is a tear jerker of the nth degree. Great story, with more than enough emotion infused. One of Keaton's better performances.

"My Life" will certainly touch you:
What a profound movie. The plot has been described by other reviewers, so I won't repeat. All I can say is "My Life" is one movie that will profoundly touch you, the sign of a truly great movie.