How sad is this?

Admirable film.

This is a tender, generous movie that likes its characters and presents them as real people, full of flaws and strengths.

A movie that not only functions as a solid scarefest but a razor-sharp satire.

"Decoding Annie Parker" is a low-budget movie based on the stories of two remarkable women: Annie Parker, a woman that fought her three cancers with courage; and the geneticist Mary Claire King, who believed breast cancer would have a hereditary basis and researched cancer for decades with her team. The intentions are great; Samantha Morton has top-notch performance, but the screenplay is tiresome and vague. My vote is six.Title (Brazil): "Unidas pela Vida" ("United by Life")

"If you knew those codes could you change your future?" Annie Parker (Morton) has watched her mother, father and sister all die of cancer. After dealing with all of that she is told that she too has breast cancer. While going through treatment she begins to wonder why she got it. She starts off on a life long research project to find out if breast cancer is hereditary. At the same time Dr. King (Hunt) is trying to figure out the same thing, only she has to deal with not getting the funding she needs. This is a true story of the almost cure for cancer. Obviously the fact that this movie deals with cancer it will be emotional but not in the way you expect. This movie will make you mad, very mad. Knowing how close Dr. King was getting but at the same time being blocked at the funding level because the powers that be didn't think it was important enough. This was in the 70's when she started. Just imagine where we would be today if she got what she needed! This is an important movie that should be seen. I recommend this. Overall, a very important movie but not a movie to rent for straight entertainment. Morton is great. I give it a B+.

There is no one definition that describes all cancers. They are a large family of diseases which form a subset of neoplasms, which show some features that suggest of malignancy. A neoplasm or tumor is a group of cells that have undergone unregulated growth, and will often form a mass or lump, but may be distributed diffusely. Six characteristics of malignancies have been proposed: sustaining proliferative signaling, evading growth suppressors, resisting cell death, enabling replicative immortality, inducing angiogenesis, and activating invasion and metastasis. The progression from normal cells to cells that can form a discernible mass to outright cancer involves multiple steps

After attending the premiere of this newly introduced movie in Boise, Idaho, I new simply by the applause at the end that it did indeed, triumph! Steven Bernstein's 6 years in the making of this film,has certainly created a rouse. A rouse of the meticulous journey that cancer can take on one's soul. He spared no details in capturing the viewpoints of the victims and the victor.The victor, Annie Parker, who was played so delicately, so raw, and ever so convincingly by Samantha Morton, was and will always be one of my favorite "stand-out" performances by an actress. She so exquisitely captured cancer's journey which can be summarized by a simple quote from George C. Scott, "The human spirit is stronger than anything that can happen to it." Being that this is the first review that I have taken time to write, I'm am very pleased, dare I say proud too, that it is for this movie. And, although it is a review with a few small paragraphs, I hope that it is enough to convince any and all that Decoding Annie Parker is truly a "Must-See!"