Rather surprisingly this is a Spanish-Canadian coproduction (one of the producers is Pedro Almodovar). A young trailer-dwelling mother of two learns she has only 2-3 months left to live but can not bring herself to tell her husband (Scott Speedman) or her mother (Deborah Harry/Blondie). Instead she resolves to do certain things before she dies which include finding a potential wife for her husband, visiting her father in jail (an uncredited Alfred Molina), and discovering what it is like to make love with another man -- Mark Ruffalo who falls in love with her (he too does not know that she is ill). Parenthetically I think he is a fine actor but I wish he didn't always look so dirty and/or scruffy.
Sarah Polley a super actress who has been in films since childhood plays the lead without mawkishness. In other hands this might have been an obvious tearjerker but she manages to leave the viewer simply deeply deeply sad.
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