I saw this on the tv schedule last week and decided I couldn't watch it based on the material but then I changed my mind. PVRed it and just finished it. The movie is way better than I anticipate altho' I was REALLY hoping Toni Collette's character wouldn't die of breast cancer, because a LARGE % of breast cancer patients do survive - and thrive. I went through b/c treatment last year and I could totally relate to parts of it - the double mastectomy and the self conscious feelings afterwards, etc. The subject was handled very well I thought, and the acting was very good from all the actors. But I felt very sad at the end and I so wished she had survived. It also reminded me of Beaches a lot.

It was bittersweet, funny in parts, sad, but never really got maudlin and depressing and manipulative. So well done to all involved!

Lastly, that hospice was UNREAL! Just gorgeous. Like a luxury hotel suite. Having seen my sister die in a hospice in NE England I can tell you her room was nothing like that!