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My Left Breast

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Director(s)	Gerry Rogers
Release Date	2000
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Runtime	57 min
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Film Description

�With startling honesty and immediacy, Canadian filmmaker Gerry Rogers began filming her ordeal with breast cancer the moment her hair started falling out from chemotherapy. You are with her at 4 in the morning when she expresses her deepest fears and her most intimate feelings; she takes you to her doctor�s appointments and family gatherings; you are in the chemo room as the toxic red liquid is pumped into her body; you are in the radiation chamber as she gets zapped with the equivalent of 10,000 chest x-rays; you join in the singing and magic of the most joyous Christmas party; you attend the pot-luck wig hair-raiser she organizes in defiance of cancer; you laugh with her as she lies next to a bald-headed seal that rests on a local beach near her Carbonear home. You are there as Gerry lives her life with her partner Peggy, who nurses, films, and loves her. You won�t watch this film, you will experience it � and you will never see the world quite the same way again.� � Terry Nash, Academy Award-Winning Director, “If You Love this Planet”