Chinese-American Billi is opposed to her family’s decision not to tell their beloved matriarch she has cancer, so they plan a wedding for a final reunion.
The Farewell (2019)
Diane, at the age when friends are dying off, seeks reconciliation with her drug addicted son.
Mr. Church (2016)
A black man serves as cook for a single mother & her young daughter, supposedly for 6 months the mother has to live, but after 6 years, he is still there, & even after the mother dies, he stays in touch with the daughter.
My Life (1993)
A dying man estranged from his family decides to make a video for his unborn child and reconnects with the joy of life and his loved ones, even while dying.
Miss You Already (2015)
Two married female friends in London stand by each other when one undergoes chemo for cancer & the other wrestles with infertility and at last pregnancy.
Self/less (2015)
By a process called shedding the dying Damien has his mind switched into a younger body, but finds himself at war with the lab’s owner when he learns more about the history of his new body.
Life Itself (2014)
If you love movies, you won’t want to miss this wonderful, fascinating look at Roger Ebert’s life. Click the film’s title to read my entire review.
The Fault In Our Stars (2014)
I’m impressed with this movie about teenagers falling in love and wrestling with mortality. Click the movie’s title to read my full review.
Shadowlands (1993)
Late in life famed author/theologian C.S. Lewis marries American author Jay Davidson, only to lose her a few years later to cancer. Once writing about pain from an academic viewpoint, he now understands it from the point of view of the broken-hearted living in shadowlands.