Plot
The friendship between two life-long girlfriends is put to the test when one starts a family and the other falls ill.
Release Year: 2015
Rating: 6.6/10 (567 voted)
Critic's Score: 46/100
Director: Catherine Hardwicke
Stars: Drew Barrymore, Toni Collette, Dominic Cooper
Storyline
Milly and Jess have been best friends forever. They've shared everything since they were kids - secrets, clothes, laughs, substances, boyfriends... now they are trying to be grown-ups. Milly has a high-flying job and lives in a beautiful townhouse with husband Kit and their two kids. Jess is a town planner and she and her boyfriend Jago live on a bohemian houseboat on a London canal. Their friendship is as rock solid as ever. That is until Jess struggles to have a much longed-for baby and Milly finds out she has breast cancer. How do you share that?
Cast: Drew Barrymore -
Jess
Toni Collette -
Milly
Dominic Cooper -
Kit
Paddy Considine -
Jago
Tyson Ritter -
Ace
Mem Ferda -
Ahmed
Noah Huntley -
Company executive
Jacqueline Bisset -
Miranda
Janice Acquah -
Nisha
Charlotte Ubben -
Cheryl
Shola Adewusi -
Athena
Honor Kneafsey -
Scarlett
Anjli Mohindra -
Kira
Ryan Lennon Baker -
Ben
Joanna Bobin -
Trivia: Jennifer Aniston was originally cast but after the project was delayed, she dropped out and Rachel Weisz was cast. Weisz also dropped out and Drew Barrymore replaced her. See more »
User Review
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This is the archetypal woman's film - but there's nothing wrong with
that, with far too few opportunities for women in the key roles in
movie-making. So women fill the slots of scriptwriter (the British
Morwenna Banks), director (American Catherine Hardwicke) and the two
top acting positions (Australian Toni Collette and American Drew
Barrymore).
And the subject material is feminine too: breast cancer, infertility,
and female friendship. Like "The Fault In Our Stars", this is a frank
exposition of what it is like to suffer cancer - in this case, with
chemotherapy and its attendant sickness, tiredness and hair loss
followed by headaches, vision loss, and pain.
It sounds tough and it is - one the saddest film I've seen in a long
while - but there is humour and warmth and superior acting which make
it worth viewing this real slice of life. After all, most of us of a
certain age have had relatives or friends who have suffered one form of
cancer or another, some surviving, some not.
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