One Week Page #4

Synopsis: Out of the blue, Ben learns he has stage IV cancer; survival, with treatment, is 10 percent. So this risk-averse, slow-to-act, quiet man buys a used motorcycle, says goodbye to Samantha, his baffled fiancée, and heads west from Toronto. He imagines it's a quest for Grumps, a mythical figure from his childhood; he takes digital photos of various "world's largest" roadside attractions; he chats with strangers, including two women; his bike slips on a dead skunk on the highway. Calls to Samantha meet with pleading that he return for treatment and anger that he won't. He doesn't want to be a patient yet. But, will he make discoveries, and what about Grumps? What's important?
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Director(s): Michael McGowan
Production: IFC Films
  1 win & 3 nominations.
 
IMDB:
7.1
Rotten Tomatoes:
50%
NOT RATED
Year:
2008
94 min
Website
832 Views


I know.

And he promised that

return within two days.

Returning home?

Not yet.

So you...

Vienes...?

Yes..

Dnde... are you?

In Banff.

Booking a plane ticket tomorrow.

Goodbye.

Ben knew that...

... to turn more

travelers,...

... search by Grumps seems stupid.

Two hours after

Escape the room

Presidential...

... was lost.

If it came Pacific Ocean...

... and west without it,

What would you do?...

... Oh, my God...

... Damn!

Nice doggy, nice doggy!...

...- Lindo perrito...

- Mick Launches!

Lie!

Sorry. Not expected

find someone here.

No problem. I only

is distracted, was not it...

... Are you okay?

Yes, I'm fine.

I just... I am a...

I feel a bit silly...

...- Quieres water?

- Yes, it can be. Thank you.

A Canadian Errant

Banned from their land

You know the song?

Yes

A Canadian wanderer...

... That was a statement

greatly attenuated....

... Ben's mother had

singing 'Un Canadien errant',...

a traditional song...

French Canadian

every night during his childhood.

Words

in their DNA....

... Of all the songs

Tracey could have chosen,...

... for having chosen

mean something.

In foreign lands

Thus.

The fundamental rules

songs around the campfire...

clearly say that...

all must participate.

Honestly, no Quieres sing.

Seriously. I insist.

If you see my country

My unfortunate country

If you see my country

Ben had never

made a complete inventory...

of things...

Samantha did not like to...

... She was a girl routines...

... Everything had to be

done in a certain order....

... A deviation from this, directed...

... lack of sleep and

irritability general...

... Despite the efforts of Ben,

Samantha refused to be a...

... quantify movies, books y...

... behavior of

family members...

... scale of 1 to 10...

... A big disappointment for Ben,...

... because that is the filter

classified many parts of your life.

Ben regretted the

how your sex life...

have lost some...

of his previous carnal...

Whether Le... wait until tomorrow...

... And finally,

the most annoying of all:...

Samantha's jaw...

lap while she ate.

Ben was sure that

as the years passed,...

... alerting him that...

... Come on, I say to my friends

I remember them...

... Come on, I say to my friends

I remember them

You have a fantastic voice.

It's nice of you to say

but there is much left

I hope she can sing.

Well, I have perfect pitch,

and you can definitely sing...

... That was horrible!

My teacher s class 4

I lied...

ZDE... do you mean?

It's nothing important.

His second book is about what?

I wrote a second novel...

... any idea Tienes o....

... Oh, no. Rejection

killed my creativity.

You know, my grandfather

Thomas Edison quotes for me...

... until they run out like a child.

His favorite line:...

'Many of the failures of life

are people who are unaware...

... how close

of success when he fell.

Fine, but perseverance,

and then there is only an illusion.

I think someone has to fill

the proportion of delirium in the world...

... What would you do if you had one week of life?

Maybe... only

what I'm doing now.

My mind is not tomorrow o....

... in yesterday, or even a

three hours. You are just here...

... What would you do?

Love...

... Why?

I am just a matter of urgency

more than words.

Samantha could

find a flight that evening,...

... instead of in the morning

Then, as planned.

When Ben agree

was deliriously happy...

... Maybe it was the fact

that somehow...

... succeeded in solving

their demons...

What... this way much

more sense,...

... that treatment...

Dnde... have you been all night?...

... How you can just forgive me...

ZNO... bother you?

Of course I'm upset.

But at least not lied in this regard.

You are completely

lost at this time.

So I say to myself

which is not us.

Maybe later, I get upset.

But now we have more things to try.

As for why not go home.

Simply can not.

It's selfish.

Es.. is not...

... Are you being an idiot.

Treatment...

ZTE... seems there is no hope?

I do not want to be patient.

No, it does not make sense.

We have still not out...

... even the fight? By

course that makes sense.

And if this fight?

And if this is the right thing?

I know.

Changed everything.

But Why?

What happened?...

... Why not have

only by the diagnosis.

Because, Samantha, I am watching

a wall that can not overcome.

Because I do not know

cules are good answers...

so be honest... What?

Well...

Quieres know... what was the first

What went through my head...

... when the doctor said I had cancer?

The first thing?

Is that I wanted to cancel the marriage.

I absolutely wanted to marry...

... and do not want to return to work,

and do not want to do what it was.

This is a normal reaction.

So I wanted to cancel the wedding.

However, Samantha,

it is not cancer,

has to do with life

he built for me.

Why I have so much insurance?

Because I care so much

to be responsible all the time?

Because I have to mess with that

tools that we put in our kitchen?

I am becoming like my father.

And no offense to him, love him...

... is a decent man, but this

was never the ambition of my life.

So cul is the alternative?

This!

This is the alternative.

You can simply walk

to travel by bike forever.

At some point,

This leaves you on top.

Especially you.

I just want time.

If you can have every

in this day and make life...

... then it must be a better choice.

But you should not be killed.

You know that. Allows

go against the odds.

That has allowed us to do this.

This has nothing to do with us.

This is the problem, Samantha.

This has to do with me...

... Alguna once loved me?

Is not the way it deserved...

... Why I asked you to marry?

Due to the large part of me wanted...

Why not find...

a reason for not having done so.

I never thought it had been withdrawn.

A security option...

... How they have seen?

Any indecision,

All questions...

They always see us.

And do not see you.

I'm an idiot.

Samantha...

ZNO... dare to follow me.

Shut up!

Hi, Mom.

It has a good point.

Thank you.

Enjoy.

Sorry.

You can help us

to take a picture?

Bright.

Thank you very much.

Thanks...

...- Not.

- It's Canadian, Zeh?

Am

Let me tell you who lives

one of the most beautiful countries in the world.

I know.

Love them was not an illusion....

... However, as in

most relationships,...

had some waves...

treacherous it could sink....

... In these times of

storm at sea,...

... Ben is a picture of a

eg cul is the best.

Nobody knew say

degree of certainty...

... that in fact the

Grumps appearance of...

It is difficult...

detected this way....

... However, a good rule of thumb

where his father has always believed:...

Reconhec him...

finally, when you see.

And Ben was positively sure...

... that the universe was

Grumps cough...

Smell the sea...

... Cul is the divorce rate...

... 36%.

This is not some

very good opportunity.

Are better than one in ten.

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