The foreign film Oscar winner from 2003, this is a film about the final days of a dying father. The father is in an over populated hospital in Canada with four people to a room and people lining the walls in the hall, meanwhile the floor below is empty. The son is a millionaire who has made it rich off of oil money and who does not get along with his very socialist professor father; through bribery he is able to secure his father a freshly furnished room on the empty floor and all of the necessary cancer testing.He finds out his cancer is terminal and the son scores him some heroin to ease the pain. He then manages to gather up all of his fathers friends to see him through his final days. The film has a very light mood considering the plot. The gathered friends talk about life, love, and everything they miss from being young. The scoring heroin and assisted suicide at the end are all treated very lightly, which I found very shocking [and I don't feel telling you this ruins the film since we find out the cancer is terminal in the first 10 minutes]
I don't think this is a timeless classic by any means. I expect it will slowly slip out of the minds of those that put it on their "top" lists and motivated me to watch this in the first place. Just an average film.
Vote: 6/10
IMDB Link: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0338135/
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