Lifetime is featuring an anthology of five short films exploring the impact of breast cancer on people’s lives directed by Jennifer Aniston, Alicia Keys, Demi Moore, Patty Jenkins and Penelope Spheeris. The powerful movie is called FIVE and will premiering Monday, October 10th at 9PM ET/PT. This film looks fantastic! Check it out!
About Five
Through an interconnected story arc that uses humor and drama to focus on the effect breast cancer and its different stages of diagnosis have on relationships and the way women perceive themselves while searching for strength, comfort, medical breakthroughs and, ultimately, a cure. Five highlights the shared experience each short film¹s title character Charlotte (Goodwin), Cheyanne (Fonseca), Lili (Dawson), Mia (Clarkson) and Pearl (Tripplehorn) endures from the moment of diagnosis. Each touching storyline is tied together by chronologically featuring Pearl, beginning as a confused child bravely facing the loss of her mother (Goodwin) to breast cancer to her adult life as a mother and oncologist treating other patients (Fonseca, Dawson and Clarkson) before she herself is diagnosed with the same disease that took her mother.
5 STORIES (SHORT FILMS) DIRECTED BY 5 CELEBRITY DIRECTORS:
Jennifer Aniston ·
Directed by Jennifer Aniston, written by Wendy West and told in a series of humorous and dramatic flashbacks, Mia is a survivor’s tale that highlights all of the highs and lows of Mia’s (Patricia Clarkson) two-year journey from diagnosis with breast cancer.
Alicia Keys ·
Lili, directed by Alicia Keys and written by Jill Gordon, follows Lili, a fiercely independent, career-minded woman (Rosario Dawson), who recruits her sister (Tracee Ellis Ross) to help tell their hard-nosed mother (Jenifer Lewis) that she has breast cancer.
Demi Moore ·
Directed by Demi Moore and written by Stephen Godchaux, Five’s opening film, Charlotte, takes place the night in July 1969 when man first walks on the moon, and when a young Pearl (Ava Acres) is more concerned about why her family is not letting her see her mother, Charlotte (Ginnifer Goodwin), who lies in her bedroom dying from breast cancer.
Patty Jenkins ·
In Pearl, directed by Patty Jenkins and written by Deirdre O’Connor, Pearl (Jeanne Tripplehorn), the successful oncologist we have followed from childhood, suddenly finds herself in the patient’s seat when she is diagnosed with breast cancer.
Penelope Spheeris ·
In Cheyanne, directed by Penelope Spheeris and written by Howard Morris, sexy young stripper Cheyanne (Lyndsy Fonseca) and her handsome newlywed husband Tommy (Taylor Kinney) struggle to redefine their passionate relationship, as well as who they are as individuals, when Cheyenne is shocked with a breast cancer diagnosis. Looking at a severe prognosis, Cheyanne’s aggressive treatment ultimately results in the removal of both of her breasts, which have defined her life physically, financially and emotionally.
The all-star ensemble cast includes Academy Award nominee Patricia Clarkson (Pieces of April), Rosario Dawson (Sin City), Lyndsy Fonseca (How I Met Your Mother², Ginnifer Goodwin (Big Love), Josh Holloway (Lost), Taylor Kinney (The Vampire Diaries), Jenifer Lewis (The Princess and the Frog), Jennifer Morrison (House M.D.), Kathy Najimy (WALL-E), Golden Globe Award winner Bob Newhart (Horrible Bosses), Annie Potts (Law & Order: SVU), Tracee Ellis Ross (Girlfriends), Emmy and Golden Globe winner Tony Shalhoub (Monk), and Emmy nominees Jeffrey Tambor (Arrested Development) and Jeanne Tripplehorn (Big Love).
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Wow! I had not heard of this. It sounds like it is going to be a great and powerful movie.
love the holiday makeover tooo cute. and haven’t heard about this series yet sounds interesting
Sounds like something worth checking out.
I saw a piece on Good Morning America about this and I can’t wait to see it – I’d love to see their perspective on it. Alicia Keyes said that she loved directing so much that she’s going to be doing a lot more of it.
I had heard of this and was anxious to see it and totally forgot about it. I will have to check my listings to see if they are going to play it again.