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Review: Catherine Hardwicke's Overly Familiar Weepie 'Miss You Already' Starring Drew Barrymore And Toni Collette
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On a certain level, one wants to fully embrace a film like "Miss You Already.” Yes, it’s essentially another disease-movie-of-the-week, with the film following Milly (Toni Collette) as she deals with the physical and emotional effects of her breast cancer on not only her family — including her husband, Kit (Dominic Cooper), and her mother, Miranda (Jacqueline Bisset) — but on Jess (Drew Barrymore), with whom she has been inseparable best friends since childhood. But instead of dwelling in the expected misery, Catherine Hardwicke’s film focuses on the bond between the two female friends, and to some degree, their palpable chemistry together drives the narrative, infusing the weepie material with the kind of warmth and humor that some might consider “life-affirming.” Read More: Watch The First Trailer For Catherine Hardwicke's 'Miss You Already' Starring Drew Barrymore And Toni Collette In this case, though, such high spirits can »
- Kenji Fujishima
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