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<blockquote data-quote="Mel O&amp;#039;Drama" data-source="post: 435122" data-attributes="member: 23">Miss You Already (2015)

<img src="https://external-content.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.heyuguys.com%2Fimages%2F2015%2F07%2FMiss-You-Already-Poster.jpg&amp;f=1&amp;nofb=1&amp;ipt=5e062b1df69f2fbfb14d29b411ff82ec979b6e29576251e07cc4781df2f5dd68" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="width: 911px" />Prime&#039;s description was tantalisingly vague:And that&#039;s it.I didn&#039;t even try expanding the text (and this morning I&#039;ve found out that there wasn&#039;t any more if I had). Toni Collette&#039;s name and the image of her and Drew Barrymore evidently playing friends was enough for me to click in.Had I noticed the categorisation (International * Drama * Heavy * Heartwarming) or read up any more on the film, I may not have watched. Not as eagerly, anyway. Fortunately, I was able to watch it unfold organically, and probably for the first thirty minutes or so it would have been difficult to pinpoint what the film was about - beyond a general theme of &quot;friendship&quot; - because there were a number of different focal points.These different dramas co-existing - relationships and strains; IVF; cancer; financial concerns - brought a soap opera element to it. There&#039;s also a kind of&nbsp; Beaches thing going on with the focus on the friendship from childhood on two friends, one of whom is overly dramatic with a narcissistic mother, the other being more grounded and with her own set of problems.With and American and and America-based-Australian on the poster I&#039;d simply assumed this would be an American film. It was a pleasant surprise to find that it was a British film, written by Morwenna Banks. This meant that it handled its subjects with a matter-of-factness and humour. It&#039;s not devoid of sentiment (ultimately, it&#039;s still a chick flick with Drew Barrymore) but stops short of mawkishness. It&#039;s the most graphic and brutally honest on-screen approach I&#039;ve seen to a storyline about breast cancer, while stopping short of horror or clobbering the viewer round the head with facts.The cast includes Paddy Considine, whom I&#039;ve only really previously seen in Pride, where he was equally good. Jacqueline Bisset is Collette&#039;s high maintenance actress mother, while Frances de la Tour has a small-but-hugely-memorable role as a theatrical wigmaker.Toni Collette is unsurprisingly brilliant, and the chemistry between her and Drew is wonderful. Before Drew was cast, Jennifer Aniston and then Rachel Weisz were set to play opposite Toni. I&#039;m glad it worked out the way it did. Incidentally, Collette mentioned E.T. in one of her lines to Barrymore and I found myself wondering if that line was already&nbsp; in there before Drew was finally cast.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Mel O'Drama, post: 435122, member: 23"] [CENTER][B][SIZE=6]Miss You Already[/SIZE][/B] (2015) [IMG width="911px"]https://external-content.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.heyuguys.com%2Fimages%2F2015%2F07%2FMiss-You-Already-Poster.jpg&f=1&nofb=1&ipt=5e062b1df69f2fbfb14d29b411ff82ec979b6e29576251e07cc4781df2f5dd68[/IMG][/CENTER] Prime's description was tantalisingly vague: And that's it.I didn't even try expanding the text (and this morning I've found out that there wasn't any more if I had). Toni Collette's name and the image of her and Drew Barrymore evidently playing friends was enough for me to click in. Had I noticed the categorisation (International * Drama * Heavy * Heartwarming) or read up any more on the film, I may not have watched. Not as eagerly, anyway. Fortunately, I was able to watch it unfold organically, and probably for the first thirty minutes or so it would have been difficult to pinpoint what the film was about - beyond a general theme of "friendship" - because there were a number of different focal points. These different dramas co-existing - relationships and strains; IVF; cancer; financial concerns - brought a soap opera element to it. There's also a kind of [I]Beaches[/I] thing going on with the focus on the friendship from childhood on two friends, one of whom is overly dramatic with a narcissistic mother, the other being more grounded and with her own set of problems. With and American and and America-based-Australian on the poster I'd simply assumed this would be an American film. It was a pleasant surprise to find that it was a British film, written by Morwenna Banks. This meant that it handled its subjects with a matter-of-factness and humour. It's not devoid of sentiment (ultimately, it's still a chick flick with Drew Barrymore) but stops short of mawkishness. It's the most graphic and brutally honest on-screen approach I've seen to a storyline about breast cancer, while stopping short of horror or clobbering the viewer round the head with facts. The cast includes Paddy Considine, whom I've only really previously seen in [I]Pride[/I], where he was equally good. Jacqueline Bisset is Collette's high maintenance actress mother, while Frances de la Tour has a small-but-hugely-memorable role as a theatrical wigmaker. Toni Collette is unsurprisingly brilliant, and the chemistry between her and Drew is wonderful. Before Drew was cast, Jennifer Aniston and then Rachel Weisz were set to play opposite Toni. I'm glad it worked out the way it did. Incidentally, Collette mentioned E.T. in one of her lines to Barrymore and I found myself wondering if that line was already in there before Drew was finally cast. [/QUOTE]

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