Duas Vidas, um Destino

Switching around channels to find a movie to help me sleep I had a choice between this one and "Ghost Cat"; assuming 'Two Against Time' might be a time travel adventure I opted for it: wrong choice.

As meritable as it might be to portray a story about a mother and daughter both diagnosed with cancer, which is the storyline here, I found the movie unconvincing and bland.

Quite apart from the irritating portrayal of a spoilt brat kid and her domineering mother which is later redeemed by their illnesses,this movie does a gross dis-service to people really suffering from cancer, since its'true pain and the pain of its treatment is almost non-existent in the film.

The do-gooder film-makers and actors seem to think that by showing bald headed women we are someone going to be shocked, but all this does is make a mockery of people who are really suffering.

"Ghost Cat"-which I have now seen, is far more honest!

2 out of 10.

Now I may not have all that much knowledge on cancer patients as some people do, I have personally only known one person who has had cancer, but i do believe that this was a good movie. I am only 19 so I have grown up knowing heaps of kids my age abusing or being rude to their parents, and I believe that this movie strikes true in the relationship at home when something tragic happens.

While true that it does not show how much physical pain and suffering a cancer patient may go through, i do believe that it shows the emotional suffering a cancer patients family can go through and i have no hesitation in recommending this movie to anybody who enjoys the Danielle Steel Series or any TV movies that may have come out in this time period.

I found this movie purely by accident scrolling around Tubi. It caught my attention because I have lived this. Both my mother and I have cancer. Well, I had it and have beaten it from every doctor's perspective. My mom however has a very rare genetic blood cancer which she lives with and takes medicine for. A lot of people actually live with cancer and go about their lives. Idk if people know that. You hear cancer, and you think omg I'm going to die, but that is not the case now with medical improvements in treatments.

This movie shows that.

It starts out with just a mother and a teenage daughter having issues, what else is new? But one day the daughter wakes up with a terrible pain in her arm and it's blue and looks weird. They go the doctor and get a biopsy and it comes back a rare cancer. So the daughter has to postpone college and start aggressive chemo treatments. Her mother takes her to her appointments and one day mom goes for her yearly mammogram and it comes back cancer.

The mother is a super mom. For real. She still works and takes her daughter to appointments while getting chemo. Reminded me of my mom. Just amazing, the love of a mother.

I shouldn't tell any more because I don't want to spoil it, but this movie made me appreciate my mother even more than I do. Never take your parents or children for granted and do try and spend quality time with them.

Marlo Thomas is fantastic in this. I never really saw her in anything so I never knew she was such a good actress.

The daughter played by Ellen Muth I knew from Hannibal and she is great!! I really wish I could see actresses like her in more things. She looks like a normal person and not all plastic, plus she is a trained actress and you can tell. Both of them did so good in this. I highly recommend it.

I found this to be a story of the true relationship that can occur between mother and daughter (or the struggles that happen even under normal circumstances) and the fact that they both were afflicted with cancer moved me even more. I have had breast cancer and the depiction of Marlow Thomas was right on. I found her to portray the mother as a selfless, loving, human being who had to endure a deadly disease, and confront her death, the death of her father, mother and what would happen to her children. The fact that both mother and daughter went bald from chemo treatments, brought the realization how even the treatment of cancer is so devastating, along with the zapping of energy and sometimes, the struggle to just go on. I only hope that I will find this on TV again, so that I can record it!

The movie was realistic, inspiring, and worth every second of viewing. The characters were credible especially the mother and daughter. Anyone who has raised a teenager knows what the mother, portrayed by Marlo Thomas, was feeling. Unlike the people in the other reviews, I do not believe the mother was controlling. The daughter was cutting school regularly, dating a loser, smoking pot, acting rudely, etc. Teenagers do this, and it is not abnormal, but nevertheless, the mother had to act like a mother and not a pushover. Anyway, I loved seeing their relationship develop into a more loving and respectful one. It's too bad it took cancer for them to get there. I loved the shower scene--reminiscent of when my wife gave her very ill mother a bath. As hard as it might normally be to believe a mother and daughter get cancer at the exact same time, it is a true story and a beautiful one. Marlo Thomas did an excellent job in her role--a far cry from "That Girl." Way to go, Marlo!