| My Life | | Cast : | Michael Keaton, Nicole Kidman | | Director : | Bruce Joel Rubin | | Studio : | Columbia/Tristar Studios | | Format : | Color, Closed-captioned, Dolby | | Released Date : | November 12, 1993 | | DVD Released Date : | March 23, 2004 | | Language : | Unknown (Dubbed), English (Dubbed), French (Dubbed), English (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled), French (Subtitled), Spanish (Dubbed) | | Audience Rating : | PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested) | | | BUY THIS DVD FROM AMAZON |
Customer Reviews
| Rating |  | | Date | May 28, 2005 | | Summary | Where Did this wonderful movie come from? | Content
 | I watched this movie yesterday for the first time and I was completely blown away by the magnitude of Michael Keaton's performance. I honestly think that he should have been a contender for an Oscar in 1993 but do not even recall seeing the movie in theaters back then.How does a great movie like this get lost in the shuffle?? The entire premise of the movie is to make people think about the quality of life while they are living it and hopefully not to wait until dying to make things right with family and loved ones. I know I came away with valuable wisdom after seeing this beautiful film. |
| Rating | | | Date | March 13, 2005 | | Summary | Far beyond my ashes, my beloved son! | Content
| The poet in his early ages, enjoys singing to death , but when he is aged finishes after crossing all the adversities and hopes makes a supreme tribute to life. In the youth the death is just an abstraction, a remote presence, an invention of those who die. In the golden age is something more than an iced air: it' s a tangible figure, almost human invited by it's own to the final ceremony.
The old poet , who exalted to death in the age of the irresponsible joy simply oversmiles and enjoys like any one else when a bird sings or before the perfect structure of the falling leaf and intends to
listen the rumor of the trees when the wind ceases.
The idea of the death scares us. Let' s be honest in any school we learn to live, and worst still how to die, to extend our live after the supreme moment.
A young advertiser is dying of cancer. The picture tells the change of attitude before the life and the familiar relations operated in the small affective circle. He decides to immortalize through video all the new experiences of the life to legate the next son who will born after his imminent absence. A film whose own identity emerges from its apparent banality, because offers of unexpected way to reflection about the life by itself.
Beautiful reading about the death, the posthumous love , the life and the love.
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| Rating | | | Date | February 07, 2005 | | Summary | One of Nicole's best | Content
| Nicole Kidman has had a handful of great films, MY LIFE being one of them. Nicole plays the wife of Michael Keaton, a busy executive who learns that he has cancer. He is given only months to live and decides to video tape "advice" to his yet unborn child. Both Keaton and Kidman convincingly portray a couple dealing with the situation, and it is one of those films that will bring tears to your eye. I first saw it in 1993 and didn't think that much of it then (I can't remember why). Watching it 10 years later made me appreciate it more and notice the fine performances.
This is a movie worth buying. However, the DVD is disappointingly presented in pan/scan. Why the distributor did not take advantage of the original widescreen aspect ratio that the film is available in, is beyond me. I dislike pan/scan because much image is lost. |
| Rating | | | Date | January 25, 2005 | | Summary | This movie makes you ask: What's my legacy? | Content
| "My Life" is a movie that goes beyond simple entertainment. It actually stops you dead in your tracks, and casues you to reflect deeply on your own life's purpose. This movie will help your remember and cherish what's most important. |
| Rating | | | Date | January 05, 2005 | | Summary | Facing the inevitable | Content
| "When a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully" - Samuel Johnson
Michael Keaton gives an effective and heart-felt performance as Bob Jones, a young, successful PR executive married to a beautiful woman (Nicole Kidman) who is expecting their first child. The bottom falls out of his life when he is diagnosed with a fatal illness, and only given months to live. He is forced to exam his life that he's really just been rushing through. Bob Jones not only has never stopped to smell the roses; he hasn't even noticed that they are there at all.
'My Life' is a realistic portrayl of what must go through one's mind when one is brought up short by such stunning news. Although the topic is certainly depressing, it is something we will all one day face. This is how one man deals with the terribly bad hand he has been delt. Especially poignant is the fact that not only won't he probably be around to help raise his child, but he might not even make it long enough to see his child born. Heart-wrenching.
In several pivotal scenes, Jones decides to hope for a miracle, and visits an Asian healer (Haing Ngor who starred in 'The Killing Fields')who tells him that he has too much anger and hurt in him. Jones resists the whole notion of exploring how he got to where he is, at least for a while. His anger at his family is one point of anger he must struggle with.
Keaton does an excellent job here. We see flashes of the actor we saw in 'Mr. Mom' and earlier movies, sort of a lovable, good-hearted guy with a funny edge to him. His Bob Jones evolves slowly and realistically from a man who is stunned and angry, to a man determined to let his child know who he is. Ngor also plays the right note as a practioner who can't cure his patient, but perhaps can help him in his last journey.
A potentially maudlin, down-beat subject is handled with just the right amount of empathy and gentleness and with a light touch.
Highly recommended. Very highly recommended if you've had such a scare, are living with a terminal illness, or have had a loved one deal with such issues. |
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