Review of My Life Without Me (2003) by Kirk Honeycutt for The Hollywood Reporter — 21 Feb 2005

Successfully surmounts nearly all the challenges of making a film about a young person dying. Which means the writer-director avoids pitfalls. It is not cloying or sentimental or falsely optimistic. It avoids bathos and exaggerated emotions.

Instead, the film affirms life in surprising and gratifying ways.