My Life Without Me movie storyline. Ann (Sarah Polley) is 23 years old and has a simple, but happy life with her husband, Don, and her two daughters, Penny and Patsy. Ann works as a janitor in the night-shift, cleaning at a University, Don builds swimming pools and they live in a trailer in Ann’s mother’s backyard.
When Ann goes to the doctor expecting to be pregnant, she is informed that indeed she has a terminal cancer. She hides the information from her family and prepares for her death, making a list of ten outstanding subjects in her life, including preparing tapes for the birthdays of her daughters until they are eighteen years old; eating and drinking whatever she wants; telling only the truth; finding a new wife for her husband; visiting her father in the penitentiary; and making love with another man.
My Life Without Me is a 2003 Canadian drama film directed by Isabel Coixet and starring Sarah Polley, Mark Ruffalo, Scott Speedman, and Leonor Watling. Based on the book Pretending the Bed Is a Raft by Nanci Kincaid, it tells a story of a 23-year-old woman, with a husband and two daughters, who finds out she is going to die soon. The film was produced by Pedro Almodóvar’s production company, El Deseo.
The film was released on September 26, 2003 and ran for 12 weeks. It grossed $400,948 in the USA and $9,326,006 from markets in other countries, for a worldwide total of $9,726,954.
My Life Without Me (2003)
Directed by: Isabel Coixet
Starring: Sarah Polley, Scott Speedman, Mark Ruffalo, Amanda Plummer, Deborah Harry, Maria de Medeiros, Julian Richings, Jessica Amlee, Esther García, Camille Martinez, María Cami
Screenplay by: Isabel Coixet
Production Design by: Carol Lavallee
Cinematography by: Jean-Claude Larrieu
Film Editing by: Lisa Robison
Costume Design by: Katia Stano
Set Decoration by: Shelley Bolton
Art Direction by: Shelley Bolton
Music by: Alfonso Vilallonga
MPAA Rating: R for language.
Distributed by: Sony Pictures Classics
Release Date: December 17, 2003
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