WasAnnon
Slow pace in the most part of the movie.
MamaGravity
good back-story, and good acting
Crwthod
A lot more amusing than I thought it would be.
Allison Davies
The film never slows down or bores, plunging from one harrowing sequence to the next.
Smoreni Zmaj
This is beautiful. Authors of "Me Before You" should watch this and then go to a corner to be ashamed of themselves. The ending song is really performed by Bec. Beside singing it, Emmy Rossum also wrote it. She instantly became one of my favorite actresses. However, "The Intouchables" still holds the throne on this topic.8,5/10
Marton Robert
i didn't have a lot of expectations for this movie, i went in like "OK, i'm gonna watch this" and i thought that after it's gonna be done, i would be like...meh, it was OK.But damn, this movie made me cry (the ending...when she jumps off the bed and goes to her, i started crying like a baby, i didn't cry in 2-3 years lol and this movie made me cry). It was a beautiful and sad movie, the actors played VERY WELL! this is my first review on the site and i'm here since 3-4 years ago, but only this movie made me write one.Watch it alone so you can cry, because YOU WILL CRY. I don't give 10 to movies, almost never, but this one deserves a 10 for sure.
Prismark10
Oscar Bait from Hilary Swank who clearly wishes to add to the two Best Actress Oscars she already has. She plays Kate a classical pianist diagnosed with Motor Neurone Disease. ALS. She takes on Bec (Emmy Rossum) as a carer who lacks experience as a carer, an unreliable college student who spends too much time in bars and has awful timekeeping.Bec and Kate have a fractious relationship but they also rely on each other especially when Kate throws out her husband (Josh Duhamel) when she discovers that he had a brief affair but it is really because she does not want her illness to hold him back.The film is well acted with Duhamel playing the rather snooty but dutiful husband who has made a lapse in judgment. Swank gives a tour de force but it is really Rossum the film should focus on and with her traumas. Her drinking, unreliability, inability to hold relationships and nervousness to perform music in public. I expected the film would have a thread where Kate the classical pianist would encourage Bec's musical abilities.Instead the film takes on other strands and too many of them so we have later on various parents coming on to the scene and the film gets lost.The film lacked a stronger story and instead goes for movie of the week sentimentality and mawkishness.
Tony Heck
"You wanna die and you know that I won't let you" Kate (Swank) has the perfect life. She is a classical pianist with a loving husband. One day she notices something strange happening to her, when she is diagnosed with ALS her life is changed. After burning through caregivers she hires Bec (Rossum). This simple hire does more for both of them than they could have imagined. This is simply a great movie. I had trouble trying to figure out why Hilary Swank didn't get nominated for this. That aside the movie is tremendously emotional and full of heart. The movie will make you angry, happy and cry, sometimes at the same time. Rossum also does a fantastic job in this. This is not a movie that makes you feel sorry for Kate, even though you do. This movie gives hope and happiness to not only those suffering from the disease but also the care givers to those helping. I can not say enough about this and I recommend this. Overall, a great movie that Swank should have gotten more recognition for. Watch this. I give it an A-.
