In the Land of Women (2006)

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Disabilities:  Breast cancer

Comments:   Good unmelodramatic story of a mother who finds she has breast cancer. Meg Ryan looks great as a more mature woman (Sarah Hardwicke) -- not the ditzy blonde (though a reviewer has criticised for her 'retooled' face).
There are good performances all around including the younger daughter.
The drama begins when a young writer of erotic scripts goes from L.A. to Michigan to look after his grandmother and get some piece and quiet. She lives opposite Sarah Hardwicke and her family. Sarah pushes him to go out with her older daughter but he fancies the mother. She doesn't tell him but he learns about her cancer. Eventually she has a masectomy and chemotherapy.
The young man says he is a great listener and both mother and daughter confide him. Even the younger daughter asks him to marry her. This is a love story though without any outcome.
Circling around the main plot are his grandmother who keeps telling him she's dying and at the end of the film does, peacefully in her armchair in front of the TV. The girlfriend, Sophie, who dumped him and led to his 'escape' to Michigan, phones him but he frees himself of that grief.
It's like a TV film in its focus on their everyday lifes and their problems but the characters work as real people who matter to us. Each of the main characters change and mature, or live when they thought they would die, or die when they said they would. Some reviews have been unfavourable but I think we get a sense of how cancer impacts on a person's life.

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