Miss You Already

26th September 2015: Leigh

Life long friends who have shared everything from kisses, substances and everything life has to offer struggle to discuss an important change in their lives

I was expecting a overly-sentimental film that just tugged at the heartstrings by a "paint-by-number" style, bur Miss You Already was very well acted and a thoroughly entertaining look at life dealing with cancer and struggling to conceive a first child.

When Toni Collete's Millie is diagnosed with breast cancer, her life is turned upside down and she goes on a self destructive journey joined by Drew Barrymore who has recently found out that after multiple attempts she is pregnant.  How can Drew tell her friend the happy news when things have gone so wrong so quickly?

With all the Young Adult films coming out at the moment dealing with the big C (Me, Earl and the Dying Girl, The Fault in our Stars), I was expecting this to follow the same sort of path.  Miss You Already takes a more adult look at the disease and the effects it has on family life and how to tell kids that mummy won't be around much longer.

This isn't a film I would rush to see again, but I am glad I got to see it