[...] the film affirms life in surprising and gratifying ways that shed light on who its characters are and how they come to value life through a death. Sarah Polley plays a 23-year-old mother of two who, if one likes to slap derogatory labels on people, would be called trailer-park trash. When an emergency hospital exam reveals the presence of terminal cancer, Polley decides to keep the news to herself.

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