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it's being shown here in so. jersey this week.. don't know how long it will be...i did see it and only people who know anything about lyme will realy understand that it is about what a family goes through when the bread winner gets so sick...
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Yes, it is playing across he country. Not a great movie in my opinion and for a person who understands Lyme I didn't appreciate the depiction of the afflicted individual as a whacked out weirdo that caused laughter from the audience.
Don't waste your money or contribute to their box office revenues. Lyme is a back drop to the
movie. Do you think they would ever make a movie called cancer life, that is described as "hilariously funny"? See it on DVD, if you feel you really need to see it.
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Have to see it since it is Lyme related. Sometimes I do feel like a whacked out weirdo with this disease, especially when people talk to me in English and I just stare while I try to interpret =)
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We do feel that way, but this movie shows no understanding or sympathy for this man at all. Not
even by his family members because lyme is just a back drop to a coming of age movie about two young
kids and their dysfunctional families. The difference being is one is truly dysfunctional. The other is a family with a very sick family member that is ignored.
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Well hopefully it ends up being any publicity is good publicity.
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With the rare exception only those who have Lyme or experience with it thru a friend or family member will understand stand the Lyme aspect.
The rest will laugh along with everyone else ever time a deer comes into view on the screen and at the afflicted character who appears to be losing it aiming his shotgun at the deer and at pictures of them nailed to a tree for target practice just like the audience did when I saw it.
The big Lyme organizations have been silent on this one. They may have their reasons. We have bigger fish to fry, I suppose.
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I saw one organization that was supporting the film. They may have had some kind of fundraiser in conjunction with the film. I don't recall the organization name off-hand...
I haven't seen the film. I think it's good to just get some awareness out there - even if it's a subtext. Sometimes, it helps to not pound it into the public's head about the tragedy of Lyme.
Some people don't respond to that. I didn't read the book by Pam Weintraub but I heard an interview with her on the radio... It was so depressing, I didn't want to listen to it.
I really respect her but she makes it seem like there is no cure. I've been ill for 13 years but I'm not going to stop trying.
I'm doing well with alternative therapies. I'm not cured but there is hope to get better...
Sometimes it's the wrong approach to bash people over the head with negative images. I still need to see the movie - so, I'll have another opinion after that, I suppose.
I have seen movies about cancer, AIDS, paralysis, or illness that make light of the situation. It doesn't always have to be represented in a depressing way. We are all going to die someday...
I don't know why we have to go through this but it sucks. Maybe others will make movies about their experience so we can have a range of opinions out there...?
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It was Time for Lyme. See the movie, then give us your opinion. It's not a light movie about lyme, it does not promote lyme awareness nor is it the intent of the movie.
I heard lots of laugher from the audience any time anything to do with lyme flashed across the screen.
It ignores the subject IMO and merely uses lyme as a back drop.
There have been several other threads of this movie before that have discussed it in depth.
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Nope, really little to nothing to do with Lyme and in my opinion, rather a bore.
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If it weren't for the fact that I was going for a reason, disecting the movie from a lyme aspect, I
agree that it was not a good movie at all. It could definitely qualify as boring.
People will go because of the cast but I don't think it's going to be a big hit and may not hang around very long.
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I met Jill Hennessy in person a couple of years ago and she was the nicest person you could imagine.
If you didn't know she was a star, you'd think she lived a few doors down from you.
And, Alec Baldwin, well, he's from tick-central...Long Island. Surely he's heard of Chronic Lyme.
I'll write to both of them. Who knows...maybe it'll do some good.
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I have not seen the movie nor do I intend to. The preview for the movie itself turned me off from the movie big time. The preview was all over the place and really made no sense or came together in any way shape or form, and the music in the background of the preview was an awful choice. Looks like a waste of time to me.
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I loved this movie! The character with Lyme was the only "sane" one, which was supposed to be ironic given his struggles. It was a DARK comedy, and I felt it did the Lyme community justice. I loved how they mimicked tinnitus to give you an uneasy feel when he was having episodes and how they addressed the ridiculousness of psychosomatic accusations. This movie had depth so perhaps it is over a few heads...
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Hi All -
Its Sad the movie Suxs --
Now that I am feeling Good I am going to make the Lyme Movie You want to See-
I have been thinking about making it for years --
the movie will Make you Laff and Cry - I will post it when the movie is done-
For those of you that have not seen -- Hicks in the Sticks with Ticks -- Here is the Movie--Jay--
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LYMELIFE opened in Atlanta on Friday. The local paper gave it a great review (A-). It's playing at an art theatre here. Regardless of the slant on Lyme, I think Alec Baldwin is great, so I'll be checking it out. Maybe they'll give me a free popcorn if I show my PICC!
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Yawn...leave it to Hollywood. Fail.
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It will be "over the heads" of only one population and that is the vast majority of the people who go to see it for its cast......people who have not suffered thru this nightmare of an illness and know nothing about it.
Those of us who have will have no trouble at all reading deeper into the film. Please.....we deserve more credit than this, having walked in that actor's shoes and having experienced the illness "for real"!
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I have seen the trailer and based on that, I give it an F-.
If the general public saw a "real" movie/documetary about Lyme they would be shocked and maybe would hit a nerve for the good!
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