- Actors: Valerie Edmond, Gerard Butler, Valerie Gogan, James Cosmo, Carl Proctor
- Directors: Vadim Jean
- Writers: Suzie Halewood
- Producers: Bob Curry, Derek Roy, Ian Sharples, Jane Walmsley, Melissa Longley
- Format: PAL
- Region: Region 2 (This DVD may not be viewable outside Europe. Read more about DVD formats.)
- Number of discs: 1
- Classification: 12
- Studio: Metrodome
- DVD Release Date: 16 Aug 2004
- Run Time: 97 minutes
- Average Customer Review: 2.4 out of 5 stars See all reviews (17 customer reviews)
- ASIN: B00027NVXE
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 85,838 in Film & TV (See Top 100 in Film & TV)
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United Kingdom released, PAL/Region 2 DVD: LANGUAGES: English ( Dolby Digital 2.0 ), SPECIAL FEATURES: Interactive Menu, SYNOPSIS: Vadim Jean directs this strikingly photographed tale about Sarah (Valerie Edmond), a 30-year woman coming to terms with both her life and her terminal cancer. The film opens with her contemplating suicide on top of a New York skyscraper. Cut to northern England, where she returns to her widower father Frank (James Cosmo) and her now married ex-boyfriend Sam (Gerry Butler), whom she previously dumped to pursue a career in the States. Frank has settled into a melancholy housebound rut and is disconcerted by her sudden appearance. Sam still has some feelings for his ex, but his wife Charlotte is none too pleased with her presence. Told with humor and brevity, the film offers well-drawn characters who interact until the inevitable yet dignified end. SCREENED/AWARDED AT: BAFTA Awards, ...One More Kiss
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54 of 55 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
An inspiring film,
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This review is from: One More Kiss [DVD] [2000] (DVD)
What a wonderful film. It's not exactly the most cheery of subjects - coming home to die - but the whole premise was beautifully acted with excellent performances from the small cast.Sarah (Edmonds) returns from New York to her home in Scotland to die of a brain tumour, and spend what little time she has left with her childhood sweetheart Sam (Butler), who has now married. Despite breaking his heart seven years earlier Sam agrees to help her with her "To Do" list, and do all the things she'd always wanted or intended to do e.g. skydiving, flying a kite etc. This film is really about the psychological effects of living with a death sentence. How it affects the person going to die and how the others around them face up to their lives and their own mortality. It makes them take stock of the people they have become, the missed opportunities, and what is really important in their lives. It could so easily have turned into a maukish and sickly pastiche, but instead it is a very refreshing and, dare I say, life-altering look at death. There are some very dark, comic moments, which are beautifully played out (most notably the "Funeral Arrangements" section) and leave you emotionally split between laughing and crying. It's a well thought out, wonderfully presented film which will make you take stock of who you are, what you want and what the heck you're doing with your life. As the saying goes "Life is not a dress rehearsal". Let's make the most of what time we do have. I started making my "To Do" list as soon as it finished.
24 of 25 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
A beautiful and moving film,
By A Customer
This review is from: One More Kiss [DVD] [2000] (DVD)
This film is a little gem. All of the primary actors do a fine job of bringing understated pathos and wit to a very tough and potentially sentimental storyline. Gerard Butler is superb as Sam, the former sweetheart of Sarah, a dying woman. Torn between his love for Sarah and his wife, he goes through an emotional rollercoaster from joy to anger and everything in between. James Cosmo is wonderful as Sarah's bewildered father, whose own regrets and dull existence are turned round by Sarah's fate.One of Sarah's messages to her loved ones is from Dylan Thomas: Superb - only fails to get 5 stars because I can't stand soft focus photography...........
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars
Not recommended!,
By Loopy (UK) - See all my reviews
This review is from: One More Kiss [DVD] [2000] (DVD)
I do not recommend this movie. Her acting is awful. She's annoying, like few other actors I've ever seen. Is someone's desire before dying to annoy others?? The story. She's dying and the only people around her are her dad and her ex-boyfriend who has this jolly face throughout. The movie is slow. The trailer is highly misleading.
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