The progressive nervous system disease ALS has already started slowing her down, and she wants out, before her quality of life deteriorates to the point where she can’t move – or swallow. “You know it s time when you need to start drinking Chablis from a paper cup,” Lily jokes, as her first glass of the weekend smashes on the floor. That helps breaks the ice, as does the additional presence of Jennifer’s rather hapless husband Michael (Rainn Wilson), Lily’s old “partner-in-crime” Liz (Lindsay Duncan) and Anna’s on-off girlfriend Chris (Bex Taylor-Klaus) – “someone to get drunk with,” Lily giggles to the latter.
Susan Sarandon and Sam Neill star in a tale of family life. and death
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M, 98 minutes, in cinemas from February 25
Lily (Susan Sarandon) has motor neurone disease and she’s determined to say goodbye to life before the ravages wrought by the disease go any further.
Husband Paul (Sam Neill), a doctor, has acquired the necessary drug and the family is gathering for a final weekend with her. After everybody has gone, she will make her own exit – painlessly and with dignity in the knowledge they all believe she has done the right thing.