The read
Audiences rate it 26 points higher than critics do.
Synopsis
Estranged from his family, Jonathan (Hedlund) discovers his father has decided to take himself off life support in forty-eight hours’ time. During this intensely condensed period, a lifetime of drama plays out. Robert (Jenkins) fights a zero sum game to reclaim all that his illness stole from his family. A debate rages on patients’ rights and what it truly means to be free. Jonathan reconciles with his father, reconnects with his mother (Archer), sister (Brown-Findlay), and his love (Adams) and reclaims his voice through two unlikely catalysts – a young, wise-beyond-her-years patient (Barden) and a no-nonsense nurse (Hudson). Through this intensely life affirming prism, an unexpected and powerful journey of love, laughter, and forgiveness unfolds.
Ratings
Audiences rate it 26 points higher than critics do.
59 audience votes
Key crew
- Andrew LevitasDirector
- Andrew LevitasScreenplay
- Patrick LeonardOriginal Music Composer
Cast
- Garrett HedlundJonathan
- Richard JenkinsRobert
- Anne ArcherRachel
- Jessica Brown FindlayKaren
- Amy AdamsEmily
- Jessica BardenMeredith
- Terrence HowardDr. Crier
- Jennifer HudsonNurse Carrie
- Philip HoffmanUncle Percy
- Sterling JerinsYoung Karen
- Danielle KotchHelen
- Frankie ShawJanice