The friendship between two life-long girlfriends is put to the test when one starts a family and the other falls ill.
It’s a sad, emotive, important subject but it deserves a more detailed, heartfelt film than this.
Drew Barrymore and Toni Collette are the best of friends in a well-judged weepie.
Toni Collette and Drew Barrymore play besties dealing with breast cancer in a moving film from Catherine Hardwicke that hits all the big power chords.
Manipulative weepie will provoke an allergic reaction.
There are truthful moments and the stars work hard to convince us of this friendship but you are constantly reminded of how good that Bette Midler classic Beaches really was.
Giving Dominic Cooper and Paddy Considine redundant husband roles hardly counts as redressing the gross gender imbalance in movies when the main characters are just as insipid.
It’s hard to shake off a feeling of manipulation and exploitation.
There were tears but they felt manipulated.
The story of two friends going through life-changing crises lays on the laughs but covers important new ground.
General release. Check local listings for show times.