Synopsis
A guarded woman finds out she's dying of cancer but, when she meets her match, the threat of falling in love is scarier than death.
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Cast
- Kate HudsonMarley Corbett
- Gael García BernalJulian Goldstein
- Romany MalcoPeter Cooper
- Kathy BatesBeverly Corbett
- Lucy PunchSarah Walker
- Whoopi GoldbergGod
- Peter DinklageVinnie
- Rosemarie DeWittRenee Blair
- Treat WilliamsJack Corbett
- Alan DaleDr. Sanders
Recommendations
- 60
Total Film
While the marriage of fluffy comedy and terminal illness was always going to be an uncomfortable one, this is an understated, genuinely poignant weepie bolstered by a top-drawer cast. - 50
ReelViews
What's missing is honesty. It has been supplanted by artifice. - 25
The A.V. Club
Bravely or stupidly, both A Little Bit Of Heaven and its heroine charge on as if the introduction of terminal cancer didn't change things that much. - 25
Slant Magazine
Unsurprisingly for a film detailing terminal disease, this is a largely solemn affair, often verging on morbidity in its elongated deathwatch. - 20
The Guardian
This film is one long biopsy of pure horror: the tumours of sentimentality and bad acting metastasise everywhere, and Bernal, in particular, is horrendously bad. - 20
Variety
An only fitfully convincing Hudson leads a strong-on-paper cast, but most of the actors look uncomfortable here, particularly Gael Garcia Bernal as her love interest. - 20
Time Out
Cringeworthy feel-good weepie, which finds Kate Hudson's vivacious ad-pitch whiz questioning her life choices after being diagnosed with terminal colon cancer. - 20
Arizona Republic
There is nothing the slightest bit heavenly about this project, which is wrong-headed in just about every department.
