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For his great performance in this romance drama, Mark Ruffalo got nominated for Chlotrudis Award for Best Supporting Actor. He plays the character of Lee with whom Ann has an affair. Ann is being portrayed by the Canadian actress, Sarah Polley, who won both the Chlotrudis Award for Best Actress, and the Genie Award for Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role. It also stars Scott Speedman as Don, Ann's husband, Amanda Plummer and Deborah Harry. Julian Richings and Alfred Molina also star in minor roles as Dr. Thompson and Ann's Father in jail respectively. The movie is directed by the Spanish film director, Isabel Coixet, which is her first English language movie, and also has been written by her based on the novel Pretending the Bed Is a Raft by Nanci Kincaid. It has been produced by Esther Garcia and Gordon McLennan and the Spanish production company, El Deseo. It was released on September 26, 2003 in Spain and Canada. Its budget is unknown, but it earned $9,726,954 internationally in gross revenue. It has 64% rating on Rotten Tomatoes from 98 reviews and has a star rating of 7.6 on IMDb. This romantic drama won many international and festival awards, including the Goya Award for Best Adapted Screenplay for Isabel Coixet, and Best Song "Humans Like You" by Chop Suey.
It is a story of a 23-year-old married woman, who has a loving husband and two lovely daughters, but who is diagnosed with an ovarian cancer and that she has only two months to live before she will die. She covers up her real health conditions from her family and friends and makes a whole list of things she wants to do before she dies. It is definitely a movie that you will fall in love with and like it from the start. You do not have to wait for that moment from where the movie might take its flight, because it grabs one's attention from the beginning and holds it long after it ends. You will fall in love with its characters as well, not just for sympathy, but for what they also mean.
