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edited June 2014 in Life After Breast Cancer
For One More Day
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  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Member Posts: 1,376
    edited December 2007

    This is a movie tonight on ABC.  Mitch Albom who wrote Tuesdays With Morrie wrote the book.  He was on Oprah the other day and she produced this movie that's on tonight.  I believe it's on at 9 PM EST.

    I'm sure it's a tear jerker. 

    I'm going to try and watch it.  If I had "one more day" with someone I believe it would be my aunt.

    Shirley

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  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Member Posts: 1,376
    edited December 2007

    For me, it'd be Mother, my grandmother. I'd want her to sit down in the middle of Golden Gate Park or in my kitchen and show her pictures of my daughter.

    ~I remember the last day I saw her and we both bawled our eyes out knowing it was to be the last day face to face. We talked on the phone one more time and days later she passed.

    I tevo'd the whole show so will watch tomorrow. 

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  • Bugs
    Bugs Member Posts: 1,719
    edited December 2007

    It would be my Grandma.  I miss her :(

    Bugs

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  • pconn03
    pconn03 Member Posts: 643
    edited December 2007

    It would be my Mom even though she has been gone for many many years - at the end she was on a ventilator and in a twilight sleep so not sure what she heard . . . so would definitely love to have one more day with her.  However, how hard would it be to "let go" again, after the one day???  Wouldn't it be heartbreaking all over again?  Just wondering.

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  • NoH8
    NoH8 Member Posts: 2,726
    edited December 2007

    It would be my cousin who committed suicide over a decade ago. I love Michael Imperioli, but thought the movie was a bit lame--a bit like a cross between it's a wonderful life and a christmas carol.

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  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Member Posts: 1,376
    edited December 2007

    Pat, in my mind, if this wish were possible, I would be seeing my grandmother as a spirit, so when they "left" you knew that they weren't really gone, just not visible.  Kinda like the movie clips I've seen, where he knows his mom is dead. It would be satisfying to see her and "catch up" and let her know how much she has meant to me throughout my whole life and how much I still miss her and use the things she taught me.

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  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Member Posts: 1,376
    edited December 2007

    Oh Amy, I too thought of the parallel with It's a Wonderful Life and did find the movie a bit schmaltzy. Still, if I could have one more day with my own mother - before she developed Alzheimer's - I'd love to! And getting to re-visit the old house and other stomping grounds....creepy but intriguing!

    I frankly would have preferred more episodes of Desperate Housewives and Brothers & Sisters, but better get used to specials and movies since the writers' strike looks like it'll go on forever now!

    ~Marin

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  • NoH8
    NoH8 Member Posts: 2,726
    edited December 2007

    I agree Marin, I would have preferred more episodes with  Desperate Housewives and Bros and Sis.

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  • BethNY
    BethNY Member Posts: 2,710
    edited March 2008

    I feel like the only person on earth who isn't a fan of mitch's books.  I didn't like the five people you meet in heaven, and I didn't like for one more day.

    I DVR'd it, but haven't watched it, and I don't even know why I taped it.  Maybe I was in a tear jerker kind of mood.

    I did like hearing him on Oprah the other day though.

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  • 2up
    2up Member Posts: 1,358
    edited December 2007

    my mom just raves about these books (and movies) ........... i read them both and won't be seeing the movies anytime soon .......... to me, the novels were quite saccharin, almost contrived!?

    ........... maybe it's just me? 

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  • iodine
    iodine Member Posts: 4,289
    edited December 2007

    I could not read 5 people---couldn't stop crying long enough to get past the first couple of pages.

    It was a rough summer that year, I guess.  I forget how close that was to dx and tx, but I just could not read it.  Saw the movie, but wasn't impressed.

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  • iodine
    iodine Member Posts: 4,289
    edited December 2007

    I could not read 5 people---couldn't stop crying long enough to get past the first couple of pages.

    It was a rough summer that year, I guess.  I forget how close that was to dx and tx, but I just could not read it.  Saw the movie, but wasn't impressed.

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  • NoH8
    NoH8 Member Posts: 2,726
    edited December 2007

    I've heard Albom speak and he has some wonderful things to say. I loved Tuesdays with Morrie. I think Albom has a gift for understanding love and life and what's really important--perhaps he should stick to nonfiction writing. I can't say for sure because I haven't read any of his fiction and from the reviews you guys are talking about, I don't think I will.

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  • my3girls
    my3girls Member Posts: 3,766
    edited December 2007

    I love Mitch Albom!! He is an extroidinary man!  I like the movie..but I don't think it conveyed as much as the book did (One more day).  If I had one more day, it would be with my Mom...it's been 4 yrs, and I still miss her so much!

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  • badboob67
    badboob67 Member Posts: 2,780
    edited December 2007

    I tried to watch the movie, but with constant interruptions from the boys, "Mom, where are my clean socks?....I need this permission slip signed.....help me pack my lunch!" and the "big boy" "Honey, did you order the boys' Christmas presents yet?.....I need you to look up such and such....", I just didn't get into it.

    I picked up The Five People You Meet in Heaven a few weeks before my dx. I had already seen the movie on tv, but my husband hadn't. I didn't think either was outstanding, but it was a nice story. I have to give props to Mitch, though. Five People was the first book I've seen my husband read since we were married! (he's more of a car magazine kind of guy).

    My "one more day" would definitely be my Grandma. I was pregnant and 1500 miles away when she was dying; I was not able to go to her funeral. 

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  • nosurrender
    nosurrender Member Posts: 2,019
    edited December 2007

    I saw the movie, I thought it would be a tear jerker but it wasn't until the very end and they said goodbye...

    I don't think it was directed very well. IT COULD have been a better movie I think. The direction was choppy and had no flow between memory and present and the "other world" he was in and the real world.

    Amy and Marin? You guys think it was like It's A Wonderful Life??

    (full disclosure-major league Frank Capra fan here!!!)

    I think if that option was given to me I would spend it with my brother. He died too young and we really really miss him . Especially around this time of year. I can feel his presence though. Loud and clear!!

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  • my3girls
    my3girls Member Posts: 3,766
    edited December 2007

    Nosurrender...I agree...it was very chopy.  I know that is how the book was, back and forth in time.  But as a movie, if you had not read the book, it was very hard to follow.  I only cried at the end too.  I think in the book, you felt more of how Charlie was feeling about his mother, and his regrets..this was not expressed in the movie till the end.

     That is wonderful that you feel your brothers presence.  I wish I would feel my mothers more than I do.

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  • NoH8
    NoH8 Member Posts: 2,726
    edited December 2007

    I'm a huge Capra fan NS. Nobody did it better than he, IMHO and I also loved Jimmy Stewart. I like old movie in their original forms and despise when folks remake the classics. I don't like take offs on the classics either (although I did like Marlo Thomas in the female version of it's a wonderful life, I'd watch her in anything). Case in point- Miracle on 34th Street, A Christmas Carol and Stepford Wives stick out in my mind.

    I think you're right that it could have been a better movie. Imperioli's character was soooo whiny and self pitying and the movie was choppy. In it's a wonderful life Stewart's character was a good man with bad luck who finally just didn't think he could try any more. In a Christmas Carol- Scrooge was selfish and mean, until he learned that he could be a different way. Imperioli's character in the movie just seemed kind of pathetic and self destructive- even at the end when his daughter finds him on the bleachers, she has to reach out to him in a parentified way.

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