Scanialara
You won't be disappointed!
Contentar
Best movie of this year hands down!
ShangLuda
Admirable film.
KnotStronger
This is a must-see and one of the best documentaries - and films - of this year.
Maria
I smiled, laughed, danced, cried, got some lessons for life and felt inspired. What more could I ask for? Shirley MacLaine is gorgeous as ever, Amanda Seyfried is cute as ever, the young lady (sorry I don't remember that name atm) is the topping. Good acting, good script and the music/soundtrack is outstanding. I felt extremly good entertained. If you love Shirley MacLaine like I do, this is a must. I can absolutely recommend it.
crownpt-37539
As a genealogist for many many years, I found the premise intriguing. Write one's own obituary. While my husband was in the late stages of pulmonary fibrosis and pretty much bedfast, I asked him to please write his obituary for me. He had done so many things in his lifetime, I didn't know what he would want included.
That being said... my late husband, Jerry Hedges, co-wrote the song, Tornado, with Russ "Andy" Anderson. The song was recorded by the Jiants on Claudra records in Marion, Indiana. My husband played that strange new guitar sound, Andy sang vocals, Ron Wolfe played drums and Lee Balsbaugh played the piano. The song can be heard playing in the background of a scene in the radio station.
Linda Lane Hedges
paulc17
I struggled with how to rate this. The acting was good and the story was good, but the idea that someone can be so controlling, selfish and mean her whole life, and at the end of that life when she is all alone because of that behavior, have her actions suddenly transformed into, to paraphrase, "making people be all they can be" is bull. Like I said, she was a mean, selfish and controlling person who no one liked, and never even attempts to make any redemption for that.
TxMike
My wife and I watched this at home on BluRay from our public library. We both enjoyed it as a great character study with a few life lessons.I have long been a Shirley MacLaine fan, now in her 80s she delivers a spot-on performance as Harriet, formerly successful businesswoman and now very wealthy in Southern California. She has a very controlling personality, probably obsessive-compulsive, and one day while reading some obituaries she decides she doesn't want to leave hers to chance so she looks up the local newspaper reporter who writes them.Harriet has long been a well-funded advertiser and is important to the newspaper so she has no difficulty convincing the editor to honor her wishes. The obituary writer is Amanda Seyfried as Anne. She has many of Harriet's characteristics but is not yet confident enough to write the stories that she really wants to write.Harriet has analyzed obituaries and decided that there are 4 key elements and she is missing one, the unexpected feat for the obit's intro. So she decides she will bridge that gap by finding a disadvantaged "at risk" child to mentor. She finds AnnJewel Lee Dixon as the charming but foul-mouthed Brenda. She too has many of Harriet's characteristics.So, as the stories move forward it centers on this rag-tag trio who seem to have nothing in common but end up helping each other realize some changes that each needs to make. And, as Harriet is diagnosed with congestive heart failure the writing of her obituary takes on fresh importance.
