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| Toni Collette and Drew Barrymore |
The honest, well-acted new dramedy "Miss You Already" doesn't pull any punches about what you'll need when you see the movie: plenty of tissues. Directed by "Twilight's Catherine Hardwicke and written by British actress and playwright Morwenna Banks and based on her BBC radio play "Goodbye," the warm chemistry and the solid performances of the leads carry it through some of its more disease-of-the-week calculations. The movie follows two best friends, Milly (Toni Collette) and Jess Drew Barrymore), as they navigate life's highs and lows. Milly undergoes treatment to battle breast cancer while Jess tries to get pregnant. As much as I hate to say it, the solid, affecting "Miss You Already" is a calculated chick-flick, but it's also a good one, so guys prepare yourself to sit through this one as payback for sitting through the lackluster new Bond movie. You may not regret it though, given that it features two of cinema's most likable actresses, Barrymore and Collette, the latter of whom gets the far meatier sick woman role (and in one mildly shocking scene mid-film, you see her mastectomy post-op), but Barrymore has some compelling moments too as the woman torn between finally getting pregnant and helping her sick best friend. Dominic Cooper and Paddy Considine ably support the women, while a still-lovely Jacqueline Bisset gets in a few moments as Milly's vain but well-meaning actress mother. Some of it's depressing and you've seen this done many times before, but both actresses, especially Collette, are memorably good, so give the familiar and manipulative yet warm "Miss You Already" a chance, though I wouldn't recommend it if you or a family member or friend have suffered from an illness lately, as it could hit close to home.
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