Film Review – Miss You Already

With “Miss You Already,” director Catherine Hardwicke is forced to mature as a filmmaker, but she isn’t going willingly. The screenplay by Morwenna Banks offers a tale of cancer and friendship, taking on the impossible bonds of life with a great degree of honesty, urging Hardwicke (“Twilight,” “The Lords of Dogtown,” “Thirteen”) to treat the material with uncharacteristic sincerity. She almost pulls it off, peppering “Miss You Already” with confrontations and confessional moments that resemble human behavior. The helmer can’t help herself with floppy camerawork and only-in-the-movies moments of flamboyant catharsis, but the picture is the least Hardwicke-ian of her troubling career, and that’s a promising development. Read the rest at Blu-ray.com