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Created May 08, 2009 08:55PM PST • Edited May 08, 2009 08:55PM PST

1. Quality

2. Summary

   OK 2.5

   How does a family react when their mom is dying? What does the dying person go through? This movie gives us a surprisingly realistic look though character studies that are sometimes funny but always heart-fealt and genuine.

4. Acting

   Good 3.0

   Sally Field takes the cake for helping us understand what really happens. A performance that was truly compelling. All the rest were very good as well, some very notable performances.

5. Male Stars Good 3.0

6. Female Stars Good 3.0

7. Female Costars Good 3.0

8. Male Costars Good 3.0

10. Film

    OK 2.5

    The movie is filmed in a “Friends” style sit-com, except without the sit-com style humor. Instead, the humor and interactions are more subdued – funny, yet more fitting for the circumstances. This worked well, because that is how people are in life — using humor to break up the situation, not to be the main focus of it.

11. Direction OK 2.5

12. Play OK 2.5

13. Music OK 2.5

14. Visuals OK 2.5
15. Content

16. Edge

    Tame 1.1

17. Sex Innocent 1.1

18. Violence Gentle 1.1

19. Rudeness Polite 1.1

21. Reality

    Natural 1.0

22. Circumstantial Natural 1.0

23. Biological Natural 1.0

24. Physical Natural 1.0