vickycain Review of A Little Bit of Heaven

A Little Bit of Heaven (2011)

One of the worst films I've ever watched - and I've watched a lot

[1/10 · 17 March 2012]

This film was badly thought out, badly acted, had no plot and is another film to add to Kate Hudson's list of films she should never have taken part in. Gael García Bernal is the only thing that makes this film remotely interesting (although the main character's dog does a better job than him, too). The main character (who I've forgotten the name of - it's that rubbish) is a successful business woman who has pains in her stomach, goes in for tests and gets told it's cancer. Despite treatment (and I think their portrayal of this process is offensive to people who go through chemotherapy), her illness progresses and she's told it's terminal. Much is made of the distant relationship with her mother and father and it doesn't ring true, especially when they find out she's dying. Her doctor is the guy who has to force her to take control of what is left of her life and come to terms with what is happening to her. They fall in love (despite the clichéd Kate Hudson character being too stubborn to take his help...just so badly acted again, it's painful). There are so many things bad about the film that I couldn't get through all of them, but it finishes with, one minute, KH sitting outside on a lake with a blanket over her and talking to her randomly placed (and again badly acted) friend then suddenly fainting/collapsing and not waking up. We see her in a random hospital room with all her friends/lover/parents standing watching her. It feels like the film makers had run out of steam at this point and just gave up. DO NOT WATCH THIS FILM. You will waste a couple of hours of your life in which you could be watching paint dry.