The script was all over the place. There were parts I liked, but they seemed to come from several different movies, and didn't fit into this one. Peter Dinklage's gigolo and Whoopi Goldberg's turn as "God" belong in a flighty movie, not in a film that's trying to be a serious look at how people cope with cancer.
The patient/doctor dynamic, was insultingly trivialised, too. I can accept that two people who fall in love might break the rules, but I would've thought there would've been a whole lot more soul searching going on. He turns her down initially, but then soon relents and says yes, with no real plausible explanation for the change of heart. Seems to me you might be a lot more cautious if agreeing to a date meant your career was on the line. His colleagues try to warn him off, but mostly the movie treats the relationship like it's a happy, frothy joke, when in reality it represents a serious ethical breach that deserves to be treated like a big deal, if it goes ahead.
The whole movie was like this, veering wildly between lighthearted and dramatic, without the characters being able to make the shifts feel convincing.
At one point another character says to Marley something like: "Why do you always have to treat everything like a joke?!" I feel the same way about Kate Hudson. "Raising Helen" was another movie with an ostensibly serious subject, but somehow it ended up as an inconsequential, disposable timewaster - just like this. Like mother like daughter, I guess; always trying to make light of things, instead of tackling the serious stuff.
The patient/doctor dynamic, was insultingly trivialised, too. I can accept that two people who fall in love might break the rules, but I would've thought there would've been a whole lot more soul searching going on. He turns her down initially, but then soon relents and says yes, with no real plausible explanation for the change of heart. Seems to me you might be a lot more cautious if agreeing to a date meant your career was on the line. His colleagues try to warn him off, but mostly the movie treats the relationship like it's a happy, frothy joke, when in reality it represents a serious ethical breach that deserves to be treated like a big deal, if it goes ahead.
The whole movie was like this, veering wildly between lighthearted and dramatic, without the characters being able to make the shifts feel convincing.
At one point another character says to Marley something like: "Why do you always have to treat everything like a joke?!" I feel the same way about Kate Hudson. "Raising Helen" was another movie with an ostensibly serious subject, but somehow it ended up as an inconsequential, disposable timewaster - just like this. Like mother like daughter, I guess; always trying to make light of things, instead of tackling the serious stuff.