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'Ordinary Love': Scenes From A Marriage Touched By Cancer

Lesley Manville and Liam Neeson bring a wry, lived-in tenderness to this "imperfect but affecting" tale of a long-married couple facing cancer together.
He has a very particular set of coping skills: Tom (Liam Neeson) and Joan (Lesley Manville) face her cancer diagnosis together in <em>Ordinary Love.</em>

My first time around with , I saw two great actors doing their damnedest to breathe life into a pedestrian cancer weepie. I watched it again and saw two great actors bringing grace and depth to an imperfect but affecting chamber piece that takes it for granted that we can handle a de-sanitized drama about a long-married couple doing their best to cope with life-threatening illness. The

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