Emmy Steals The Show!........

I have had this movie in my queue at Netflix for awhile now, and finally got around to watching it yesterday. Two-time Academy Award winner, Hilary Swank, stars as a classical pianist struck with ALS, and Emmy Rossum plays the brash college student who becomes her caregiver. Josh Duhamel plays her supportive hubbie not too sure about bringing this unpredictable new presence into their lives, but the two women become close very quickly as both their lives change significantly from their relationship.

I notice something here- that the two lead actresses are expanding upong perhaps their best-known roles. Swank, as the bed-ridden subject of one of her two Oscar-winning roles, "Million Dollar Baby", and Emmy Rossum, as the self-sacrificing caregiver of TV's "Shameless". I'm not bashing the movie for this- in fact, I'm saying this is what works best for it. And Swank may be the Oscar winner, but it's Emmy Rossum who really steals the show in this movie. And wow!- what a cast (seems like a lot of them have worked in Clint Eastwood-directed films-??)- Ernie Hudson, Loretta Devine, Jason Ritter, Frances Fisher, Marcia Gay Harden, Ed Begley, Jr., and Julian McMahon of TV's "Nip/Tuck" round out the cast.

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