So touching and what families really go through when a member of the family is ill. Everyone should watch it and if you don't have a loved one that is sick then show a little compassion.

Great movie, very inspirational. Excellent acting powerful subject. All around highly recommend!

This movie is all about family. The family needs each other, and evan though the mother was sick the others loved her just the same. It was hard to see her go through what she did. They stuck together as well as they knew how. Mistakes were made but would be made by anybody. They never forgot. This movie shows unconditional love. It also shows ambition and the strive for happiness.Those who don't like this movie do not have a heart and they were not paying attention.

Expected this movie to be background filler for some other activity, but early on it caught my full attention and kept it until the end.
I don't have a close family member who suffers from mental illness or alcoholism or drug addiction, but I still found the film engrossing and meaningful, so I guess I disagree with the reviewers who found it boring and slow.
No, there was no violence, and there was no one huge dramatic event that 'destroyed' the family; this was a low key treatment of how the day to day life of a family disintegrates (and reintegrates) when the mother suffers a schizophrenic breakdown. All the small battles that have to be fought on the battlefields of work and school, and how the family loses some and wins most. It's a 'nice' movie that ends up making you feel good because nice people find their way through in the end.
And bravo for the soundtrack - it went a long way towards setting the right mood without intruding. You barely notice it until you realize that it's setting an emotional background for the whole story.