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Released
2003 · FILM

My Life Without Me

A young mother diagnosed with a terminal illness races against two months to secretly fulfill a bucket‑list of dreams for herself and her family before the disease claims her life.

“What you are… is what you leave behind.”

Directed by
Isabel Coixet
Written by
Nanci Kincaid, Isabel Coixet
Runtime
106 min
DramaRomance

Synopsis

A mother who is terminally ill and has only two months remaining creates a list of things she wants to accomplish before she dies, without informing her family of her condition.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 22

These are the principals we have on file — the full crew ran to the hundreds. Every film this size was made by far more hands than any credits list ever names.

Why a floor?

This is a minimum, not a total. We only count the credits we’ve captured so far, and coverage is uneven — a blockbuster might show a few hundred names while another of the same size shows a couple dozen. The real crews all ran into the thousands. The number here only grows as full credits are enriched — so we frame it as a floor, never a headcount.

Craft leads on file

Edited by Lisa RobisonShot by Jean Claude LarrieuScored by Alfonso De VilallongaDesigned by Carol Lavallee

Box Office

2003 · Box office

💰 Box-office hit — grossed 4.9× its budget

Why 2.5×?

Cinemas keep roughly half of every ticket sold, and a wide release’s marketing often costs about as much again as the film — so a movie needs to gross around 2.5× its production budget just to break even theatrically. It’s a rule of thumb, not the studio’s ledger (home video and streaming come later).

Worldwide gross

$12.3M

Budget$2.5M
Worldwide gross$12.3M
break-even (2.5×)

US & Canada: $401K — 3% of worldwide · International: $11.9M (97%)

Opening weekend: $41K — 10% of its US run. It had legs — it kept earning long after opening weekend.

Opening week (7-day): $58K — 14% of its US & Canada run.

Peak 7 theaters

Also known as

  • Mein Leben ohne michde
  • Mi Vida Sin Míde
  • My Life Without Meen
  • Mi vida sin míes
  • Ma vie sans moifr
  • La mia vita senza meit

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