Decoding Annie Parker

Name: Decoding Annie Parker
Director: Steven Bernstein
Released: 2014

Steven Bernstein

2014

Synopsis

The lives of a breast-cancer patient and a researcher who is trying to prove a genetic link to cancer intersect in a groundbreaking study.

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75
McClatchy-Tribune News Service
The film tells Annie Parker’s story with heart and wit, and finds a few funny insights into the stubborn, brusque woman, Dr. Mary-Claire King, whose lonely quest to find proof would bear fruit.
70
Arizona Republic
Morton is outstanding. The rest of the cast, which includes Rashida Jones and Bradley Whitford, is also good. Bernstein does a nice job moderating the tone of the film, which could have been depressing, but isn't.
70
The New York Times
Decoding Annie Parker is considerably better than the kind of disease-of-the-week fare that used to be a television cliché.
70
Village Voice
Decoding Annie Parker is a better living-with-disease drama than medical mystery.
63
Slant Magazine
This isn't a film of bedside conversions or radical emotional transformations, nor is it a story about laughing at one's own hardships as a coping mechanism.
60
Los Angeles Times
The division between the personal and scientific stories is not a clean one. It gives the film an uneven rhythm as it at times lurches between the two women's very separate lives.
50
New York Post
Well-intentioned, if ultimately underwhelming, ode to the ongoing fight for a cure.
50
Washington Post
Decoding Annie Parker could have shown much more effectively and deeply that the fight against an often ruthless disease can be won by women attacking it from multiple sides. Instead, it sticks mostly to one track, taking audience members on a journey that, sadly, via the movies or their own lives, they already may know a little too well.