Bessie and Lee are sisters who have remained apart for nearly 20 years due to radically different personalities and life paths. When Bessie knows that she has leukemia, she attempts to end the feud with her sister to get her bone marrow.
15 February 1956, Guantanamo Bay, Cuba
25 December 1984, Savannah, Georgia, USA
5 January 1946, Los Angeles, California, USA
17 August 1943, New York City, New York, USA
17 July 1968, New York City, New York, USA
24 January 1925, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
22 June 1949, Summit, New Jersey, USA
18 July 1911, London, Ontario, Canada
7 March 1949, Buffalo, New York, USA
9 April 1966, New York City, New York, USA
9 September 1950, New York City, New York, USA
2 October 1970, Stratford, New Jersey, USA
18 July 1951, Jacksonville, Texas, USA
24 July 1940, Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
23 December 1953, Brooklyn, New York, USA
11 November 1974, Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA
13 January 1925, Culver City, Los Angeles, California, USA
May 02, 2013
Great work from Dicaprio, De Niro, and especially Streep certainly make the film watchable, but it still can't save it from feeling like a TV movie of the week. If you're a fan of melodrama... and over 60, then you'll find much to like.
December 26, 2006
Based on a play by Scott McPherson's who died of AIDS, it's impossible to watch the well-acted film (particularly Diane Keaton, who should get an Oscar nod) without thinking of its themees: the various approaches to love and the strength of family bonds
June 24, 2006
Streep gives her most credible blue-collar performance to date; Keaton sidesteps saintliness to mix vulnerability and small heroics.
February 08, 2010
The performances are overwhelmed by cinematography so gorgeous and distracting it makes the drama seem like just so much wheel spinning.
May 20, 2003
Powerhouse casting and a heartbreaking history make the screen version of Marvin's Room more memorable than it otherwise would be.
April 09, 2005
Its an actor's/writer's movie, but, oh, what acting and writing
October 23, 2004
Slow, depressing family drama finely acted
February 08, 2010
At times attractive, at other times dull.
February 08, 2010
Keaton is given a rare opportunity here to remind us that she's not simply a fine comedienne, and she's marvelous.
July 12, 2003
Zany and emotionally-affecting story about death, aging parents, reconciliation, and the healing power of selfless love.
February 08, 2010
It's all plinky-plink pianos and mewing oboes, trying to jerk those tears a little too hard. No, a lot too hard. The music is awful. Stupendously bad.
June 18, 2002
Any movie with Meryl Streep is an occasion, but when you add Diane Keaton, Robert De Niro, Leonardo DiCaprio, Hume Cronyn and Gwen Verdon, you've got an embarrassment of riches.
