- Actors: Michael Keaton, Nicole Kidman, Bradley Whitford, Queen Latifah, Michael Constantine
- Directors: Bruce Joel Rubin
- Writers: Bruce Joel Rubin
- Producers: Bruce Joel Rubin, Gil Netter, Hunt Lowry, Jerry Zucker, Kathryn J. McDermott
- Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD-Video, Full Screen, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
- Language: English
- Subtitles: English, French, Spanish
- Region: (US and Canada This DVD will probably NOT be viewable in other countries. Read more about DVD formats.)
- Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
- Number of discs: 1
- Studio: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
- Release Date: April 24 2001
- Run Time: 117 minutes
- Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars See all reviews (26 customer reviews)
- ASIN: B00000F5MN
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Amazon Bestsellers Rank:
#16,582 in DVD (See Top 100 in DVD)
- #40 in DVD > Drama > Family Life > Fathers & Sons
- #67 in DVD > Special Interests > Parenting & Childcare > Pregnancy & Childbirth
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Product Description
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
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My Life
Dec 28 2011
Format:DVD
This is an awesome movie and I enjoy watching it time and again. I have spent the last year trying to locate this movie and was very excited to find it. It was cheap and the shipping was fast. It's kind a sad movie at the end but definitely worth the tears.
Have a FULL box of kleenex ready
Nov 24 2004
Format:DVD
I knew this movie was suppose to be a "tear jerker", I wasn't prepared for the magnitude of it. Having said that, I should also say it really made me think. As Keaton resolves his feelings about his life and how he's lived it, I learned a lot about my own. Sounds corny but I think I came away a better person after watching this one.
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Great movie
I must say this movie is very sad. I do not like to cry but I cried at the end. This movie is about a man who gives all he can to his family. Read more
Published on Feb 6 2004
Get out the kleenex.
The title is enough. This is a tear jerker of the nth degree. Great story, with more than enough emotion infused.
One of Keaton's better performances.
Published on Mar 12 2003 by Aaron D. Bond
Sad, slow, underrated movie
This is one of the few movies that makes me cry every time I see it. My Life is depressing, honest, and beautiful, which makes it rather hard to watch. Read more
Published on Mar 10 2003 by Mike Duffy
A Guaranteed Tear Jerker, But Still A Great Movie
This movie is very good, but I have to admit that you have to be slightly masochistic in order to watch it. Read more
Published on Jan 11 2003 by BookMania
A Cherished Life -- Bitter-Sweet Film About Dying Young
Michael Keaton gives a stellar performance as a man who finds out that he will not live long enough to see his unborn son grow up. Read more
Published on July 23 2002 by Michael Mathena
My Take
The air around me was humid and rather pasty, swirling about in thick clumps; and though somewhere in the background a fan buzzed to no end, it seemed fruitless... Read more
Published on Jun 26 2002 by ColoraturaSoprano
This movie can make a man cry
This movie helps remind the viewer that life itself is valuable. It is all too easy to get wrapped up in this American Rat race living. Read more
Published on Jun 22 2002 by Saint Paul Observer
Very Touching Movie
This is a fantastic movie staring Michael Keaton in a role I have never seen him in before, and the beautiful and talented Nicole Kidman as his wife. Read more
Published on Feb 16 2002 by Melissa
Hope amid death
Definitely one of the best movies I have seen (in my personal top 10) hence must be incredible to rate a mention on the honour list. Read more
Published on Jan 4 2002
Absolutely Awesome Movie!
This movie is another one of my favorites! The movie has purity, humor, drama, and lots of tears! It's such a good portrayal of a terminally ill man, with a family on the way. Read more
Published on Dec 5 2001 by M. Jolley
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