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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1Audience Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested) Binding: DVD Brand: Sony EAN: 9780767859875 Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD-Video, Full Screen, Subtitled, NTSC ISBN: 0767859871 Label: Columbia Pictures Languages: Manufacturer: Columbia Pictures MPN: COLD05853D Number Of Items: 1 Publisher: Columbia Pictures Region Code: 99 Release Date: April 24, 2001 Running Time: 117 minutes Studio: Columbia Pictures Theatrical Release Date: November 12, 1993 Editorial Review: Product Description: A terminally ill man prepares for his death. Studio: Sony Pictures Home Ent Release Date: 03/23/2004 Starring: Michael Keaton Bradley Whitford Run time: 117 minutes Rating: Pg13 Director: Bruce Joel Rubin Amazon.com essential video: 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 Average Rating:
 Rating:  - Art imitating lifeI am a blood/cancer specialist (for 25 years), and have always been put-off by most of Hollywood's attempts to portray medical-related drama on the big screen. Scores of such attempts have always seemed to me to be overly-forced efforts to wring some emotional impact from the audience, by over-done acting and grandiose "life-and-death" scenes, as if everything that happens in medicine is so different from everyday life. The simple, daily human drama that I have been priviledged to witness in my work ... Read More Rating:  - Sad, Enjoyable, and EnlighteningThis is an up-close and personal look at the life of a man battling cancer. This isn't your typical cancer story, however. It is filled with facing fears, Chinese medicine, healing relationships and ensuring that future ones are taken care of. Grab a box of Kleenex and get ready for a heart-warming tale that may just hit a little too close to home if you've ever known somebody with Cancer. Rating: - Bringing back a good memoryGreat movie. Minimal damage to video but it wasn't enough to prevent me from watching it. Part of the film was done where I used to live. I still consider it a good buy and have no regrets. Rating: - Worth seeingHeart wrenching but astonishingly perfect. Michael Keaton outdone himself - I think it is his best movie. Even my husband cried. This movie is for all those who will one day face our own death or death of a loved one. Rating: - rings true even through the sentimental stufflike many movies there's a bit of extra sentimental stuff here, but it's about as close as you'll get to a realistic portrayal of the cancer experience. the relationship with family could have been a bit less melodramatic, and there are elements of the story that were condensed so they don't really make sense, but Micheal Keaton's transformation as he passes through the stages of cancer is powerful. If only we could all come to terms with our lives with this much clarity and grace. Anyone affected by ... Read More |
