write by someone who have be there and you can tell and but only if you have be there . excellent performance by meryl streep ( of course . ) and renee zellweger and william hurt . many people have say that it be about a dysfunctional family and i think every family be dysfunctional when they be face this kind of torment . to not be dysfunctional would be dysfunctional . you be lose your family a you know it and can anything be bad . people need to see this movie so when they be face with this nightmare maybe they will change how they do it . maybe they will see that the father be deny himself valuable time he will never get a chance at again . maybe they will realize how hard it be to die and or to watch someone you love die . they do not miss much of the nightmare and it hard to forget .