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Want to see this but it might be too close to home...


Three things that might hit too close to home for me:

1. My mom recently died of cancer.
2. Her name was Ruth Ann (Very close)
3. I am also a writer.

I know this was based on the writers life, but it's kind of spooky.

Never Drumpf! Never Hillary!

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Watch it. Then watch it again in 5 years.

I'm a gay actor/comedian who lost his mom to cancer when he was 17. The details aren't identical by any stretch, but this film is the first time I felt closure, 20 years later.

Molly Shannon may as well have been playing my own mother, and I felt like I got to watch myself resolve a thousand issues on screen.

Don't deprive yourself of the chance to feel things just because they may not be happy things. <3

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