Tag: cancer

  • Life as a House

    When a man is diagnosed with terminal cancer, he takes custody of his misanthropic teenage son, for whom quality time means getting high, engaging in small-time prostitution, and avoiding his father.

  • The Big C

    A suburban mother faces her cancer diagnosis while trying to find humor and happiness as well.

  • Wilbur Wants to Kill Himself

    The strange comedy film of two close brothers; one, Wilbur, who wants to kill himself, and the other, Harbour, who tries to prevent this. When their father dies leaving them his bookstore they meet a woman who makes their lives a bit better yet with a bit more trouble as well.

  • Charly

    Sam Roberts thinks he has all the answers: the purpose of life, the meaning of love, the plan for a perfect future. Until Charly walks into his life.

  • Changing Hearts

    Based on Daniel Wright’s award-winning play “Colored Eggs”, is a drama/comedy about life, loss and love among an eccentric group of characters whose lives intersect under less than ideal circumstances.

  • A Walk to Remember

    When the popular, restless Landon Carter is forced to participate in the school drama production, he falls in love with Jamie Sullivan, the daughter of the town’s minister. Jamie has a “to-do” list for her life, as well as a very big secret she must keep from Landon.

  • The Barbarian Invasions

    In this belated sequel to ‘The Decline of the American Empire’, middle-aged Montreal college professor, Remy, learns that he is dying of liver cancer. His ex-wife, Louise, asks their estranged son, Sebastian, a successful businessman living in London, to come home. Sebastian makes the impossible happen, using his contacts and disrupting the Canadian healthcare system in every way possible to help his father fight his terminal illness to the bitter end, while reuniting some of Remy’s old friends, including Pierre, Alain, Dominique, Diane, and Claude, who return to see their friend before he passes on.

  • Big Fish

    Throughout his life Edward Bloom has always been a man of big appetites, enormous passions and tall tales. In his later years, he remains a huge mystery to his son, William. Now, to get to know the real man, Will begins piecing together a true picture of his father from flashbacks of his amazing adventures.

  • American Meltdown

    The telefilm centers on a present-day nuclear plant disaster and its aftermath.

  • The Civilization of Maxwell Bright

    After a series of bad relationships, a man orders a mail order bride and receives more than he bargained for.