My Life Without Me
My Life Without Me is a 2003 Canadian drama film directed by Isabel Coixet and starring Sarah Polley, Mark Ruffalo, Scott Speedman, and Leonor Watling. Based on the 1997 short story collection Pretending the Bed Is a Raft by Nanci Kincaid, it tells a story of a 23-year-old woman, with a husband and two daughters, who finds out she is going to die soon. The film is an El Deseo and My Life Productions co-production.
Plot
Ann is a hard-working 23-year-old mother with two young daughters, an unemployed husband, a mother who sees her life as a failure, and a jailed father whom she has not seen for ten years. Her life changes dramatically when, during a medical checkup following a collapse, she is diagnosed with metastatic ovarian cancer and told that she has only two months to live.
Awards
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| author | Isabel Coixet |
|---|---|
| award | 24th Genie Awards Goya Award for Best Original Screenplay http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q20970213 http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q55078466 |
| contentLocation | Vancouver |
| director | Isabel Coixet |
| editor | Lisa Robison |
| events | cancer dying Mortality salience Tempus fugit terminal illness |
| genre | drama |
| keywords | anemia cove end jail long new job ovarian cancer set up sexual relationship unemployed young daughter |
| musicBy | Alfonso Vilallonga |
| nomination | European Film Award for Best Director European Film Award for Best Film |
| producer | Esther García Gordon McLennan |
| publisher | Sony Pictures Classics |
| recordedAt | Vancouver |
| theme | death independent |