I found this movie purely by accident scrolling around Tubi. It caught my attention because I have lived this. Both my mother and I have cancer. Well, I had it and have beaten it from every doctor's perspective. My mom however has a very rare genetic blood cancer which she lives with and takes medicine for. A lot of people actually live with cancer and go about their lives. Idk if people know that. You hear cancer, and you think omg I'm going to die, but that is not the case now with medical improvements in treatments.
This movie shows that.
It starts out with just a mother and a teenage daughter having issues, what else is new? But one day the daughter wakes up with a terrible pain in her arm and it's blue and looks weird. They go the doctor and get a biopsy and it comes back a rare cancer. So the daughter has to postpone college and start aggressive chemo treatments. Her mother takes her to her appointments and one day mom goes for her yearly mammogram and it comes back cancer.
The mother is a super mom. For real. She still works and takes her daughter to appointments while getting chemo. Reminded me of my mom. Just amazing, the love of a mother.
I shouldn't tell any more because I don't want to spoil it, but this movie made me appreciate my mother even more than I do. Never take your parents or children for granted and do try and spend quality time with them.
Marlo Thomas is fantastic in this. I never really saw her in anything so I never knew she was such a good actress.
The daughter played by Ellen Muth I knew from Hannibal and she is great!! I really wish I could see actresses like her in more things. She looks like a normal person and not all plastic, plus she is a trained actress and you can tell. Both of them did so good in this. I highly recommend it.
