My Life Without Me
Brief Synopsis
Cast & Crew
Isabel Coixet
Leonor Watling
Scott Speedman
Julian Richings
Deborah Harry
Kenya Jo Kennedy
Film Details
Technical Specs
Synopsis
Ann is 23-years-old with two young daughters, a husband who spends more time unemployed than working, a mother with a history of broken dreams, and a father who has spent the last ten years in jail. While other women her age are out partying, she spends her nights working as a janitor in a university that she could never afford to attend in the daytime. She lives with her family in a tiny trailer in her mother's backyard. Somehow she keeps her head above water: surviving but not "living." However, this gray existence changes completely when, after a medical check-up, a doctor tells Ann that she has very little time left on this earth. Learning that she has hardly two months to live, Ann decides to keep her condition a secret, and refuses to tell anybody--not even her husband--about her time remaining. She does not want people around her with long faces, and obsessed with her approaching death. Ann starts to make a list of things to do before dying, which she completes little by little. The list ranges from the mundane to the sublime--from changing her hairstyle and getting fake nails to making love to another man. Unexpectedly, Ann discovers an appetite for life that drives her to live her last days with a sensual and furious intensity she had not known before. During this short time, she prepares her daughters for a life without her; she meets a solitary wounded man, whom she seduces; and most importantly, Ann faces what remains of her life with a certain steadfast courage she never knew she possessed.
Director
Isabel Coixet
Cast
Leonor Watling
Scott Speedman
Julian Richings
Deborah Harry
Kenya Jo Kennedy
Sarah Polley
Jessica Amlee
Alfred Molina
Sonja Bennett
Mark Ruffalo
Amanda Plummer
Maria De Medeiros
Crew
Agustin Almodovar
Pedro Almodóvar
Shelley Bolton
Shelley Bolton
Heike Brandstatter
Natasha Brier
Melanie Burke
Gurjit S Chohan
Isabel Coixet
Isabel Coixet
Ferran Conangla
Manuel Corrales
Diana Davidson
Alfonso De Vilallonga
Esther Garcia
Ogden Gavanski
Patrick Ghislain
Lucio Godoy
Russ Hamilton
Debra Herst
Nanci Kincaid
Jean-claude Larrieu
Carol Lavallee
Heidi Levitt
Gordon Maclennan
Albert Manera
Albert Manera
Nacho Massa
Sandra Mayo
Coreen Mayrs
Monika Mikkelsen
Bill Mills
Fabiola Ordoyo
Fabiola Ordoyo
Rakel Fernandez Redel
Ruben Rivas
Lisa Robinson
Michel Ruben
Sebastian Salm
Sebastian Salm
Johnny Raphael Sardo
Dan Schlanger
Katia Stano
Jordi Torrent
Anne Worrall
Film Details
Technical Specs
Quotes
Trivia
Miscellaneous Notes
Voted one of the ten best Canadian films of 2003 by the Toronto Intl. Film Festival Group.
Released in United States Fall September 26, 2003
Released in United States February 2003
Released in United States on Video February 24, 2004
Shown at Berlin Film Festival February 6-16, 2003.
Released in United States February 2003 (Shown at Berlin Film Festival February 6-16, 2003.)
Released in United States on Video February 24, 2004
Released in United States Fall September 26, 2003
