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You're Not You

2014

George C. Wolfe

Hilary Swank, Emmy Rossum, Josh Duhamel, Loretta Devine ...

6.1

884

Drama Kate (Hilary Swank) is a suave, successful classical pianist just diagnosed with ALS. Young Bec (Emmy Rossum) is a brash college student and would-be rock singer who can barely keep her wildly chaotic affairs, romantic and otherwise, together. Yet, when Bec takes a job assisting Kate, just as Kate's marriage to Evan (Josh Duhamel) hits the skids, both women come to rely on what becomes an unconventional, sometimes confrontational and ... [+]

	Media	Author	Review
		Stephen Holden The New York Times	"[It] is so intensely persuasive that once you’re engaged by her wrenching ordeal, you mostly forgive the movie’s emotional manipulation (...) Despite holes in the storytelling, Ms. Swank and Ms. Rossum keep it real"
		Frank Scheck The Hollywood Reporter	"Its superb performances and emotional complexity ultimately elevate its familiar themes."
		Andrew Barker Variety	"The film calls on [Swank] to play a disease more often than a character (...) There are still some genuinely affecting individual scenes"
		Claudia Puig USA Today	"As a drama about an unlikely friendship, the film has some graceful moments (...) While well-intentioned, 'You're Not You' is too predictable and leaves little lasting impression (…) Rating: ★★ (out of 4)"
		Gary Goldstein Los Angeles Times	"'You’re Not You' is certainly a valuable film. It’s unfortunate, then, that this earnest, hard-working adaptation (...) isn’t a more satisfying dramatic portrayal of the disease and its impact."
		Ignatiy Vishnevetsky AV Club	"The architecture is more interesting than the drama (...) Wolfe clearly knows what he’s doing and has the actors to pull it off, but he’s tasteful to a fault"

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