Purely Joyful Movie!

A bit overrated, but still an amazing film

A great movie, one of the best of this year. There was a bit of confusion at one point in the plot, but nothing serious.

This is a small, humorous movie in some ways, but it has a huge heart. What a nice experience.

Jennifer Aniston is perfect. Movie, just about. Great job.

As a chronic pain sufferer myself I was a little disappointed to slightly angry with this movie. With all the challenges chronic pain sufferers are going through at this time, this movie makes sufferers out to be drug seeking, illegal doing, grouches that do nothing but deal with pain. Not an image we need right now! I take care of my kids, do housework and errands. Go out with friends and live everyday like it may be my last. Yes I'm in pain but I won't let it control me and I only take what is prescribed to me. The movie itself was well done but I really am afraid it will stereotype pain sufferers.

I wanted to watch this movie for a long time because of all the reviews and i didn't regret it at all. To me this was a movie which successfully touched the human soul in all possible ways. On Aniston I have to say this. I liked her on friends, and i always categorised her as a comedian but this once she proved she got more than just the looks. With this movie she proved she got the talent too. And truth is that as she started as a series actress it should be very difficult for her to enter the movie business as most series actors never make it there. I may admit that this was her most challenging role and she nailed it.On the negative parts(there are always negatives) I may say that the movie could be faster. Also it could declare the story better, we had to guess parts of the plot, which is interesting but you still have to declare everything in the end. At times the plot didn't let us relate to Claire and I personally didn't feel her pain. And lastly supporting characters could be better, the only well rounded characters were Claire and silvana the rest were superficial.On the whole this was not a masterpiece, but to me it was one of Aniston's best and a movie worth watching. I would gladly re-watch it some time.

I thought Jenifer Aniston did a perfect job of portraying someone who lives with chronic pain, as a chronic pain sufferer myself I really connected with this film, and was so pleased to see something that portrays what its like, including the I'm fine but really I'm dying inside kind of persona. I saw some reviews that were negative, but I can tell that some of these people writing reviews don't have a clue what it's like to live with chronic pain, and so couldn't connect with the story. Although I will agree it does drag on a bit, and the supporting cast really don't add much to the story line. I will admit I would like to have seen more about her relationship with health care professionals and for the story line to have started at an earlier point, to give the audience more of an idea as to what is going on in the beginning. But for those wondering why she had greasy hair and needed to lie down in the car, it's because showering or bathing takes up too much energy, and causes too much discomfort, and lying down is because it's comfier, causes less pain, and requires less energy. Otherwise I quite liked Jennifer's character, she had an I don't care attitude, which comes with chronic pain, and was an amazingly strong character who overcame contemplating suicide, her will to go on is admirable.