Five - Lifetime Movie - October 10th

I don't mean to be a kill-joy, but I can't wait to see what a bunch of BS this is. Seeing who directed it, I do not have high hopes. I will likely not even watch it but will be prepared to be highly offended if I do. The only true to life version of this would be a real story, following real women.  Thanks for sharing and I hope I'm not being too negative here.  Well, I know I'm being too negative, but I hope you don't take this negativity as negativity towards you.  I'm very glad you posted this! 

Thanks for posting...wouldn't have known about it.

Hmmm,

I have such mixed feelings about watching this.  On one hand I AM hoping it's portrayed in a  realistic way, but on the other hand, will that make it just too hard to watch, especially since I'm in pre-freak out Oncologist visit mode?  I may DVR it or catch a later viewing time.  I watched the promo and it looked very emotional.........................

Sharon

I had DVR'd it and just watched it and overall I liked it.  It did get me crying in a couple of spots.  I could relate to all the women in some ways so, I liked how they showed different stories.  The end left you thinking Cheyene died and I wish they would have addressed that more so, everyone could see reality though.  I loved Mia!!

Very true JudyO, I didn't think of that but they did do that.

I watched it by myself last night, with aid of some wine and raw cookie dough, and I will admit to some crying. It's that time of the month and my nerves have been a little raw this month already. Hell, this whole year. Anyway, I did find it all a bit Hollywood, with all the beautiful actresses and happy endings. They did not show a death except to subtly suggest it near the end, and they did make it seem like after 5 years, you would never have anything to worry about ever again. I'd never heard of that Kiss the Wall thing, either. I just though everyone looked so pretty and put-together - nobody was fretting over missed work because they suddenly had a million DR appointments, nobody was worried about money or dealing with insurance companies, nobody was rushed during Dr visits or confused about treatment options, nobody had a difficult recovery from surgery (or surgeries) or worried about the side effects of hormone treatment, or burned and blistered from radiation. I mean, they barely showed any effects of chemotherapy. It was quite sanitized.

Well the bitter critic (me) watched it and basically cried through the whole thing...The first one was soo sad, the way they left that poor small child out of it but the lack of emotion reminded me of some of my family members reaction to my cancer and that made me sad.  Then the second one with the scars, and the loving husband that made me sad, then the third one with the women with the horrible husband who left, who had stage IV and then some-how went into a cure like remission, found love and ended up traveling, etc...having a wonderful gift....a second chance at life.  That made me sad because in reality, the chances of that happening would be very slim.  She would have a horrible husband, he would leave and she would be battling cancer alone and possibly live a long time, but not in the way she was living...with hair....and incredible health and vitality. The movie was all about hope really and that is good. Most of them survived (accept for the young beautiful one? Was it insinuated that she did not make it as she wasn't there...so they left this ugliness out of it...because though it is sad when anyone dies from this disease, it is particularly sad when a very young person has it and perishes from it).  I would say for a made for TV movie, it was pretty good and touched on a lot of emotions...but it left a lot of the real ugliness of it all out...but still for a TV movie it was done well and it was beautiful to watch. I will give it a 5 out of 10..