Despite offering a well-timed look at the realities of the disease, the movie clunkily eschews cinematic creativity for emotional manipulation. Inquisitive ice-bucket challengers, consider yourselves warned.
You're Not You
Life is measured in moments that leave you breathless.
2014 · 1h 44m · R
Drama
Directed by
George C. Wolfe
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You're Not You
Overview
When an accomplished pianist is diagnosed with the devastating and incurable disease ALS, she hires a directionless young woman who becomes her full-time caregiver. Complete opposites, the strangers form a life-changing bond inspiring each other to live life to fullest, while being brought together by the most challenging of circumstances.
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This well-intentioned weepie never quite rises far enough above its movie-of-the week architecture to hit all its intended emotional pressure points.
Despite holes in the storytelling, Ms. Swank and Ms. Rossum keep it real.
Nicholas Sparks didn't write You're Not You, but he might as well have, given its familiar disease-of-the-week plot filled with scenic locations and gorgeous people.
Wolfe overplays his hand at almost every key turn.
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