The Big C

Cathy Jamison is a suburban Minneapolis high school teacher, wife and mother with less than a perfect life, despite it perhaps seeming so to much of the outside world. Her life is given a major shock when she is diagnosed with melanoma, the first news of such to her being when it is at advanced stage IV, meaning that she will most likely succumb to it within short order barring some extreme or radical intervention. Cathy goes through a myriad of emotions concerning the diagnosis, including how she will deal with it in relation to family, friends and people close to her in other ways. These people include: Paul Jamison, her college sweetheart husband, who is often just another big kid in their relationship, while Cathy has acted the responsible adult; Adam Jamison, Cathy and Paul's teenaged son who is going through typical issues of being a teenager and only child; Sean Tolkey, Cathy's hyper-environmental anti-establishment brother, who chooses to be homeless to live off the grid and who abhors what he sees as Cathy's bourgeois suburban lifestyle; her students, such as Andrea Jackson, who openly stands her ground on any issue, including her weight problem and her African-American background; and her elderly seemingly crotchety female long-time neighbor, who Cathy has not made the effort to know despite their close proximity for years.

Year

2010

Movie time

30 min

Directed by

N/A

Cast

Laura Linney, Oliver Platt, Gabriel Basso

8.1/10

IMDB

04E01 - Quality of Life

It's five months after the Jamison's Puerto Rican adventure, and Cathy finding out that her experience with Angel on his fishing boat was all a hallucination as she was lost during the scuba diving expedition. Regardless, she believes Angel was meant to be her angel of death. There is a death before Cathy's, namely Thomas, who has now joined Marlene. Cathy is stressing over what to place on his tombstone. It's a week before Adam's sixteenth birthday, and while he is focused on getting his driver's license, Cathy is focused on organizing a party for him, whether or not he wants one and despite her fatigue from recent chemotherapy treatments to remove the bits of the tumor the surgery could not remove. In her recent problems with Dr. Sherman, Cathy turns to her therapist among other people in how to deal with him, but he may be the best person to address the issue, that is if she can get some alone time with him outside of her scheduled appointments. She is still teaching, about which Principal Schuler quietly seethes as she feels Cathy is putting her own needs over the students' welfare. Cathy believes her and Paul's marriage is now in name only, as he works on promoting his business, taking over Joy's motivational speaking under his catch phrase "Flip That Switch", and completing his self-help book. And Andrea, now at college, has moved into the dorm. Having problems with her roommate, Andrea doesn't feel she can turn to Cathy anymore. Through everything, Cathy reevaluates the goal she has set out for herself for her remaining time.

Date: 29 Apr 2013
IMDB id: tt2310906
IMDB rating: N/A
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