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"Decoding Annie Parker" is the kind of movie a critic ought to feel like a heel for panning. The actual events that the picture, directed by Steven Bernstein , from a script by the director, Adam Bernstein , and Michael Moss , represent medical milestones that have led to significant advances in the diagnoses and treatment of breast cancer. The woman who lends this movie its title, a real-life three-time cancer survivor, is a model of bravery and good humor, among other exceptional qualities. The doctor who proved the genetic predisposition aspect of cancer—that it is, or can be, passed down from grandmother to mother to daughter—is a rightly lauded physician. If there’s going to be a fictionalized movie depicting their struggles, it should be a good one.

But in life and perhaps even more especially in art, there are no guarantees. And despite a potentially inspiring story and sincere efforts from a first-rate cast— Samantha Morton and Helen Hunt are the principles, with the likes of Marley Shelton , Rashida Jones , Bradley Whitford , Aaron Paul , Alice Eve , Corey Stoll , Richard Schiff , and others, providing support—"Decoding Annie Parker" is not a movie to which this critic can give a favorable review. I’d feel more like a heel about it if the movie hadn’t actually irritated me to the extent that it did.

The irritation factor came from the slapdash period depictions, the lazy use of easy signifiers to ingratiate itself to the audience (I like the Turtles as much as the next guy, but shoehorning a feel-good romantic anthem like "She’d Rather Be With Me" into this particular drama is not a constructive use of force), the indifferent-to-bad period production value—the storyline stretches from the ‘70s to the ‘90s, and Aaron Paul’s musician character has a different bad wig for psychedelic rock, glam rock, and punk rock—and the paint-by-numbers character dynamics. Morton’s Annie Parker being the free spirit whose struggle with illness inspires her to undertake sophisticated research and Helen Hunt’s Dr. Mary Claire King being the passionately all-business researcher for whom a personal life isn’t even an option.

The movie crosscuts between their respective life-journeys with little particular sense of urgency, save for a few opportunistic and ineffectual parallel scenes, such as respective Christmas celebrations where the same holiday music is playing on the radio in both Parker’s house (in Canada) and King’s office (in Berkeley, California). The title refers to genetic code, and the discovery of the BRCA1 gene, and the flaw in it that triggers cancer, is the movie’s ultimate discovery. But the event of the title never happens in the movie, at least not at literally as the title promises. Parker’s case does not give King her "eureka" moment, and Parker and King don’t even meet until after the discovery is made and announced. By the time the viewer figures out this is how it’s going down, it’s likely that a sense of cinematic disappointment has already set in. The movie’s main point of value is in Morton’s performance. The ever-intrepid actress is unsparing in depicting the sufferings that are so inextricable from the successful (or even, as it happens, the unsuccessful) treatment of cancer. Such depictions deserve to have been made in the service of a more potent picture.

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Decoding Annie Parker (2014)

Rated R for language and some sexual content

Samantha Morton as Annie Parker

Helen Hunt as Mary-Claire King

Aaron Paul as Paul

Alice Eve as Louise

Maggie Grace as Sarah

Rashida Jones as Kim

Corey Stoll as Sean

Richard Schiff as Mr. Allen

Bradley Whitford as Marshall

• Steven Bernstein
• Adam Bernstein
• Michael Moss

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Decoding annie parker, common sense media reviewers.

Powerful if a bit uneven docudrama about cancer, research.

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What you will—and won't—find in this movie.

There are several positive messages in the movie,

Dr. King is a dedicated geneticist who believes th

Several deaths due to disease (cancer, HIV), mostl

Several references to sex (or "thumpety, thum

Occasional very strong language: "f--k,"

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Adults occasionally drink, smoke cigarettes, or sm

Parents need to know that Decoding Annie Parker is a multi-decade docudrama about two women: the scientist who discovered the breast cancer gene and the cancer survivor who makes it her mission to figure out why her family was so afflicted by the disease. Sex and language are the big content issues here;…

Positive Messages

There are several positive messages in the movie, including the idea that research -- and not just awareness -- is what's going to help prevent or stop cancer. Without Dr. King's commitment to research, who knows whether it would have been discovered that there's a genetic predisposition to certain kinds of breast cancer?

Positive Role Models

Dr. King is a dedicated geneticist who believes there's a connection between genetics and breast cancer. Despite setbacks and the many years it takes to collect data, she and her staff remain committed to the cause. Annie focuses on finding out why so many women in her family have died of breast cancer and doesn't stop doing her own research for the cause.

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Several deaths due to disease (cancer, HIV), mostly people related to the main character. A woman battles cancer, surgery, and treatment; she's shown vomiting from side effects.

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Several references to sex (or "thumpety, thump, thump," as the main character calls it); several brief scenes of a married couple having sex (bare backs, buttocks); and one brief scene of adulterous sex. A woman complains about how her husband won't touch her after her mastectomy.

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Occasional very strong language: "f--k," "dumbf--k," "f--king," "s--t," "a--hole," "goddamn," and more.

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Parents need to know that Decoding Annie Parker is a multi-decade docudrama about two women: the scientist who discovered the breast cancer gene and the cancer survivor who makes it her mission to figure out why her family was so afflicted by the disease. Sex and language are the big content issues here; there are several references to and brief glimpses of sex (bare backside, moaning, adultery) and occasional use of very strong language, which tends to be variations of "f--k" and "s--t." Several characters die, mostly of cancer (and in one case, AIDS). Audiences will learn about the scientific method that led to the discovery of the BRCA gene. To stay in the loop on more movies like this, you can sign up for weekly Family Movie Night emails .

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What's the Story?

DECODING ANNIE PARKER is the story of two very different women who both want the same thing: to figure out whether there's a genetic cause for breast cancer. In Toronto in the early 1970s, 18-year-old Annie Parker ( Samantha Morton ) was already motherless due to breast cancer when she impetuously married her rock-star-wannabe boyfriend, Paul ( Aaron Paul ). Soon after that, her father dies, then her older sister Joan also succumbs to breast cancer ( Marley Shelton ). Eventually Annie, too, gets a diagnosis, causing her to become obsessed with the idea that it can't be just random bad luck. Meanwhile, in the States, leading research scientist Dr. Marie-Claire King ( Helen Hunt ) works in her lab to study families with multiple cases of the disease in the hopes of discovering a breast cancer gene. It takes decades, but both women weather countless ups and downs to reach their goals.

Is It Any Good?

Cinematographer Steven Bernstein makes his feature-film directorial debut with this informative if slightly uneven depiction of how two different women address breast cancer. One is a researcher, one a survivor; both commit themselves to the notion that breast cancer that runs in family can't be a coincidence. Despite the film's strong language and occasional sex scenes, it feels more like an old-school made-for-TV-movie than a sophisticated feature. The performances are solid and the story powerful, but the execution (especially the division between the two storylines) is spotty and underwhelming at times.

Still, it's emotional and upsetting -- particularly as the Job-like Annie deals with death after death and treatment after treatment. Decoding Annie Parker is a good choice for mothers to watch with their mature teen daughters; they'll have plenty to talk about afterward. Whether it's discussing Annie's heartbreaking life or Dr. King's relentless mission to find the gene, audiences will want to find out more about the real story of BRCA gene research. Although there's a lot of sadness in the drama, ultimately science prevails in a most unsentimental way. The feelings are left to Annie, who never gets her family back but does get the answers she desperately needs.

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Movie Details

• In theaters : May 2, 2014
• On DVD or streaming : September 30, 2014
• Cast : Samantha Morton , Helen Hunt , Aaron Paul
• Director : Steven Bernstein
• Inclusion Information : Female actors
• Studio : Entertainment One
• Genre : Drama
• Run time : 99 minutes
• MPAA rating : R
• MPAA explanation : language and some sexual content
• Last updated : February 27, 2023

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This is lamentably short of humour. It's also lamentably short of coherence and seems to have been edited by someone with delirium tremens.

Full Review | Original Score: 1.5/5 | May 16, 2016

There's a passion to tell this story with an understated urgency and profound empathy that can be felt in every frame of this terrific film.

Full Review | Oct 27, 2014

Samantha Morton gives a fabulous performance.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/5 | Oct 23, 2014

I think it's an extremely worthy film... the performances are very good.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 23, 2014

Samantha Morton's audacious portrayal of the title character boosts this mildly inspirational but sentimental true-life drama.

Full Review | Jun 30, 2014

Powerful if a bit uneven docudrama about cancer, research.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | May 9, 2014

Powered by whiplash tonalities, the film's unwieldy, stacked-deck narrative cycles through a series of tableaux that are largely familiar, frequently phony and sometimes, remarkably, even both at the same time.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.9/10 | May 3, 2014

The movie plays like something that is supposed to represent a person's life and struggle, or multiple women's perhaps, more than engage with it.

Full Review | Original Score: C | May 2, 2014

What might have been a great, fascinating real-life medical detective story suffers from a serious plot imbalance and one-sided character focus.

Full Review | May 2, 2014

The movie's main point of value is in Morton's performance.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | May 2, 2014

Decoding Annie Parker is a movie about resilience, about staring doom straight in the face - with a smile, with hope.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | May 2, 2014

An outstanding cast, a likeable narrator, and a thoughtful script take this out of the easy tears of the disease-of-the-week TV movie category.

Full Review | Original Score: B+ | May 1, 2014

This is a film that leaves you with a deep appreciation for the fighters of the world, as well as the individuals who tirelessly work to eradicate a disease we'd all like to see vanish forever.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | May 1, 2014

This modest indie with major ambitions is directed by veteran cinematographer Steven Bernstein, making a solid feature debut.

Full Review | May 1, 2014

Tears are shed in "Decoding Annie Parker," but they aren't accompanied by the kind of sad, misty soundtrack music that can leave you feeling used and abused. Instead of jerking tears, the movie edifies.

"Decoding Annie Parker," though uneven in its execution, has at its heart two remarkable women and one remarkable performance.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | May 1, 2014

It sticks mostly to one track, taking audience members on a journey that, sadly, via the movies or their own lives, they already may know a little too well.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | May 1, 2014

Cutting between the parallel stories, Decoding Annie Parker is exasperatingly slow to evolve into a misbegotten portrait of women helping women.

Full Review | Original Score: 1.0/5 | May 1, 2014

The film features a wonderfully nuanced performance from Samantha Morton as Annie.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/5 | May 1, 2014

Decoding Annie Parker is a better living-with-disease drama than medical mystery.

Review: ‘Decoding Annie Parker’ traces discovery of breast cancer gene

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“Decoding Annie Parker,” starring Samantha Morton and Helen Hunt, traces the discovery of the breast cancer gene through the lives of two women — one who carries it, one who uncovers it.

Based on two true stories, this modest indie with major ambitions is directed by veteran cinematographer Steven Bernstein, making a solid feature debut. He uses the barely intersecting lives of Annie Parker (Morton), who lost her mother and sister to the disease before being diagnosed with it herself, and geneticist Mary-Claire King (Hunt), to dissect the search for the BRCA-1 gene in both personal and scientific terms.

Though the film opens as Parker arrives late to a lecture by King — a brief encounter that will bookend the film — their individual travails run on very separate, if remarkably parallel, tracks.

As the title suggests, the emphasis is on Annie. Parker’s battle against breast cancer — she’s fought three rounds with the disease thus far — and her insistent fight to understand it make for a compelling story. The screenplay, written by Bernstein, his son, Adam, and Michael Moss, takes us deep into the personal agonies of a family ravaged by breast cancer.

That the story resonates so deeply is due in large measure to Morton. The actress, who’s building an exceptional body of work playing ordinary women, gives Parker such a humility within a warm humanity that you feel an obligation to stick with her through the mounting horrors.

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The film begins with her childhood, Parker and her older sister trying to play quietly because Mom’s sick and getting sicker. Mom dies, Annie grows up and falls in love with Paul. “Breaking Bad’s” Aaron Paul does a very good job of making Annie’s Paul a lovable loser, then a less-lovable louse.

Then in 1980 Annie discovers a lump. As the losses stack up, Parker becomes convinced the cancer in her family is not random, or not, as one doctor tells her, a run of bad luck.

As Annie is launching her own search for answers with the help of a progressive doctor (Corey Stoll) and his nurse (Rashida Jones), the film shifts the playing field to the focused scientist, rigid and rigorous in her approach and embattled in her own way.

Hunt gives King a steely spine and an unwavering belief that she is right, which helps when grants bypass her and colleagues question her work. Like King’s research assistants, we are soon trailing her as the search for the DNA link to breast cancer goes on in spite of the difficulties.

As good as Hunt is, she’s given little to do beyond sort papers, evaluate data and look steely.

Not surprising given Bernstein’s cinematography background, the film captures the look of the 1980s and ‘90s when much of the story unfolds. But the division between the personal and scientific stories is not a clean one. It gives the film an uneven rhythm as it at times lurches between the two women’s very separate lives. As significant as King’s work is, the power of the film fades any time it moves away from decoding Annie Parker.

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‘Decoding Annie Parker’

MPAA rating: R for language and some sexual content

Running time: 1 hour, 39 minutes

Playing: At AMC Town 8, Burbank; Sundance Sunset Cinemas, West Hollywood; also on VOD

[For the record 6:15 pm May 1: An earlier version of this review said that “Decoding Annie Parker” was playing at the AMC Burbank 16. The correct Burbank theater is the AMC Town 8. ]

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‘Decoding Annie Parker’ movie review

Mary-Claire King is an American woman who did something extraordinary. After years of painstaking research, she discovered the BRCA1 gene, the inherited mutation that indicates an elevated risk for breast and ovarian cancer, proving that such cancers are passed down from generation to generation.

" Decoding Annie Parker " focuses on King's efforts, in part, but doesn't explore them nearly as fully as they deserve. Early on, this based-on-real-events drama sets its course on two narrative paths: one that follows King (Helen Hunt) and her team during their nearly two-decade quest to find that cancer-related genetic link, and another that follows Annie Parker (Samantha Morton), a Toronto wife and mother whose family is shattered brutally and repeatedly by the disease. As the movie progresses, the balance tips increasingly toward Annie's story, turning what could have been a double-sided portrait of two women's perseverance in pursuit of an unknowingly shared goal into a sometimes moving but mostly familiar look at a single lifelong struggle with the c-word.

As directed by Steven Bernstein, a veteran director of photography who makes his feature film debut here, “Decoding Annie Parker” frequently dangles on the precipice of falling into Lifetime Original Movie territory. What saves it, over and over again, is its excellent cast, anchored by Morton as Annie, a woman who marries, gets pregnant and eventually discovers that her aspiring rock god husband (Aaron Paul, in a series of distracting wigs that make him look like Cher one minute and Green Day’s Billie Joe Armstrong the next) can’t cope when chemotherapy creeps into their lives. There’s both a gentleness and a charcoal-hard stubbornness in Morton’s portrayal that makes Annie naturally empathetic yet above pity; she’s clearly a fighter, and Morton inhabits her with understated dignity and an admirable willingness to put the ugliest aspects of illness on display. In a hospital scene in which a weakened Annie cries out, “It hurts,” you can almost feel her pain, right down to your bone marrow.

Unfortunately, as strong as Morton and her castmates — including Hunt, Corey Stoll, Rashida Jones, Alice Eve and “West Wing” veterans Richard Schiff and Bradley Whitford — may be, there’s a gnawing sense throughout “Decoding Annie Parker” that the deeper, more interesting narrative isn’t being told. Annie’s cancer story, and all the romantic relationship drama that comes with it, sucks up all the emotional juice, but surely King’s groundbreaking research, which took 17 years to come to fruition, involved struggle, too. Yet apart from an early scene in which a dismissive good-old-boy type refuses to fund King’s research, the movie shows little of that.

Instead, every time the camera dips back into the white-lab-coated world the geneticist inhabits — where, for reasons that may have been budget-related, neither she nor anyone else seems to age during that 17-year span — it results in a session of “Let’s Dumb Down Science for Moviegoers.” Poor Hunt and Maggie Grace — one of King’s assistants who gets stereotypically de-prettified with a pair of thick-framed eyeglasses — who are stuck delivering mouthfuls of exposition instead of having the opportunity to reveal, as Morton does, the spectrum of emotion involved in waging a cancer battle of another kind.

“Decoding Annie Parker” could have shown much more effectively and deeply that the fight against an often ruthless disease can be won by women attacking it from multiple sides. Instead, it sticks mostly to one track, taking audience members on a journey that, sadly, via the movies or their own lives, they already may know a little too well.

Chaney is a freelance writer.

R. At AMC Hoffman Center 22 and Cinema Arts Theatre. Contains language and some sexual content. 99 minutes.

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Annie Parker lost her mother to cancer at the age of 13. Years later, in 1974, her older sister, Joanie, would be diagnosed with breast cancer. Parker would lose her too. And then, like clockwork, she was also diagnosed with breast cancer. Unlike her loved ones, Parker would beat breast cancer, and eventually, she’d beat two other forms of cancer as well. And that was the story that cinematographer Steven Bernstein wanted to tell in his directorial debut.

After working on 2003’s Monster , Bernstein went looking for another true story when he was contacted about a book manuscript that Annie Parker had submitted about her life. He quickly approached Annie Parker about the possibility of a film, and she was in. “My world was so turned upside down since the age of 13 with cancer that I was really hoping that, either through a book or now this opportunity of a film, that I could get this information out to so many people about being tested and certainly getting awareness and education out to the whole world,” Parker said.

Bernstein then got to work on re-writing the script. Using Parker’s book manuscript as the foundation for the story, Bernstein started building what would become Decoding Annie Parker . And although the film claims to be “loosely based” on Parker’s life, she will admit that much of the core message is true. “I had a fixation over 40 years with cancer. I was introduced to cancer for the first time when I lost my mother and I was only 13, so a lot of the struggles that you see in the movie were true, for me to understand why cancer was hitting my family and what this cancer was, it just couldn’t be down to bad luck,” she said.

The film splits time between Parker’s (played by Samantha Morton) story of how her fixation on cancer affected her personal life, and the story of Dr. King (played by Helen Hunt), the doctor responsible for finding the genetic link in breast cancer. In real life, Parker didn’t hear of King’s work until the 1990s but was able to meet the woman she called her “hero” at last year’s Seattle Film Festival. Having now beaten cancer three times, Dr. King was fascinated to hear Parker’s medical story. However, Parker claims that this film is about more than just her. “It’s not just about my story,” she said. “It’s also about so many women.”

Cancer story aside, Parker is the first to bring up the fact that the most talked-about scene in the film is Aaron Paul working on his rock star moves in front of a mirror, and rightfully so. Paul plays Parker’s husband in the film, and as she put it, it’s very different from Paul’s work as Jesse Pinkman on Breaking Bad . Despite also being involved in some very heavy, emotional scenes, Paul worked to bring comedy to the film, something Bernstein really focused on adding. “Steve once said, ‘I can’t make this film as tragic as your life. It’s not going to get people to come to theaters,'” Parker said.

But tragedy doesn’t prevail. The film ends with the discovery of the BRCA-1 gene, which proved that breast cancer had a genetic link. It was the discovery that validated Parker’s lifelong obsession, and it’s the biggest thing that she hopes viewers take away from what she considers an “uplifting” film. “Start the dialogue. Let doctors know that you have a history of breast cancer in your family,” she said, before referencing the courageous ways that Angelina Jolie has dealt with having the gene in her family. ” I feel I’m kind of Angelina Jolie of 30 years ago,” she said with a laugh. And for her, that means, “Never give up hope.”

Decoding Annie Parker hits theaters and VOD today, May 2.

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Review: 'Decoding Annie Parker,' 3.5 stars

• Morton is terrific as the determined Annie.
• The supporting cast%2C including Aaron Paul and Rashida Jones%2C is also good.
• Bernstein does a nice job of modulating the shifting tones of the film.

Annie Parker dreaded cancer until she got it, a diagnosis she knew was coming since family members died of the same disease.

Her mother got it. Then her sister. The odds weighed heavily in favor of Annie suffering the same fate, right? Well, yes, we know that now. But not in the 1970s and early 1980s. That's the time frame for "Decoding Annie Parker," director Steven Bernstein's film based on a Toronto woman's fight against the disease and against the head-in-the-sand stubbornness of the medical community. This was a time before a genetic link had been discovered.

And almost no one was in a hurry to do so.

The film features a wonderfully nuanced performance from Samantha Morton as Annie. Yes, she has a bit of a dim view of her future, but also a sense of humor and a winning spirit, which will serve her well.

"My life was a comedy," she says early on. "I just had to learn to laugh."

What turns out not to be as interesting as it sounds is the parallel story of Mary-Claire King (Helen Hunt), a geneticist who is searching for genetic markers in breast cancer. King, analytical and reserved, is looking for money and time, two things in short supply in medical research. A clunky framing device bringing the two women together doesn't make the two parts fit together any more neatly.

As children, Annie and her sister Joan (Marley Shelton) are terrified of their mother's sickness. They decide cancer lives behind a door in their house, a door which must never be opened.

Yet even trying to lock it away won't prevent cancer's appearance in their lives. Not that they are morbid, at least not in a debilitating sense. Annie marries Paul (Aaron Paul), a pool cleaner and would-be rocker, whose various outfits and grooming serve as both an indicator of the time period we're in and a hilarious send-up of unfortunate fashion.

The disease comes, as we know it must, and its toll is more than physical. Annie becomes obsessive about finding a link, desperate to figure out what caused her cancer. (Probably not the bacon-wrapped hot dogs her mother used to serve, though one imagines that wasn't so great for the family's cholesterol count.)

Morton is outstanding. The rest of the cast, which includes Rashida Jones and Bradley Whitford, is also good. Bernstein does a nice job moderating the tone of the film, which could have been depressing, but isn't.

The look is somewhat cheap, which, combined with the period, occasionally gives "Decoding Annie Parker" a bit of an afterschool-special vibe. But Morton rises above the limitations, giving a moving performance that is both breezy and, at times, genuinely moving.

'Decoding Annie Parker'

Director: Steven Bernstein.

Cast: Samantha Morton, Aaron Paul, Rashida Jones.

Rating: R for language and some sexual content.

Note: At AMC Arizona Center.

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“Decoding Annie Parker,” Steven Bernstein’s useful, high-minded docudrama about breast cancer, is a gawky mixture of medical tutorial and personal history. Ms. Parker, played by Samantha Morton with an air of crumpled dolefulness that masks a core of ferocious determination, is a Canadian living in Toronto whose mother and sister succumb to breast cancer, which she eventually develops herself. It was the first of her three bouts with cancer, all of which she survived.

The screenplay parallels her dogged search for a connection between the deaths in her family with the uphill battle of the renowned geneticist Mary-Claire King (Helen Hunt) to prove the existence of a genetic predisposition to cancer. Annie sends many letters of inquiry to Ms. King, then based at the University of California, Berkeley, but they go unanswered. When the women finally meet at the end of the movie, Ms. King is brusquely welcoming.

These two heroines could hardly be more dissimilar. Ms. Morton’s Annie is a soft, resilient woman who endures enormous suffering with a stoic resignation, although she begins to crack during the agonies of chemotherapy. With the exception of one doctor, the medical experts she consults treat her condescendingly.

Ms. King is a taut, unsmiling crusader waging a war not only against breast cancer but also against the smug, dismissive, mostly male medical establishment that leaves her research perpetually underfunded. Crisp, bordering on icy, she is portrayed by Ms. Hunt with the simmering anger of someone so consumed by her quest that she has no room in her life for anything else.

The movie makes clear how rapid advances in computer technology helped Ms. King prove the link between genetic mutations and the increased risk of breast and ovarian cancers. Because the screenplay offers more scientific data than the average viewer can probably take in, the documentary and dramatic aspects often get in each other’s way, and the movie barely begins to integrate the two.

Ms. Morton’s quiet, strong performance gives “Decoding Annie Parker” much of its human dimension. Annie is only 14 when her mother collapses and dies. At 19, she marries Paul (Aaron Paul), who works as a pool cleaner in Toronto while futilely pursuing a career as a rock musician. At a certain point, he goes around wearing eye makeup. After Annie falls ill, Paul begins an affair with her best friend, Louise (Alice Eve). The movie could easily have depicted him as rat but instead portrays him as a confused, overgrown boy not unlike Jesse Pinkman , Mr. Paul’s character on “Breaking Bad.”

In its saddest scene, this kindhearted film gives Paul his say after Annie finds the courage to voice her disappointment that their once torrid physical relationship has gone dry. When Paul confesses his revulsion toward Annie’s mastectomy scar, their relationship reaches a hopeless impasse.

“Decoding Annie Parker” is considerably better than the kind of disease-of-the-week fare that used to be a television cliché. In today’s colder emotional climate, the mystique of medical technology is supplanting weepy spirituality as the default mode of movies about serious illness. Tears are shed in “Decoding Annie Parker,” but they aren’t accompanied by the kind of sad, misty soundtrack music that can leave you feeling used and abused. Instead of jerking tears, the movie edifies.

“Decoding Annie Parker” is rated R (Under 17 requires accompanying parent or adult guardian) for strong language and some sexual content.

Schedule information and a listing of credits on Friday with a film review of “Decoding Annie Parker,” a docudrama about breast cancer, referred incorrectly to the film’s rating. As the review correctly noted, it is rated R. It is not the case that the film is not rated.

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• Love, science, sex, infidelity, disease and comedy, the wild, mostly true story of the irrepressible Annie Parker and the almost discovery of a cure for cancer.
• Eleven-year-old Annie Parker is living the perfect young life, loved by all, and especially by her mother, father, and older sister. But none of them knows that something horrible is stalking their perfect family. On a fall afternoon in 1976, young Annie hears a noise from upstairs. Her mother has collapsed and died, and an agonizing downward spiral begins. At U.C. Berkeley, a brilliant research geneticist named Mary-Claire King ( Helen Hunt ) is embarking on something of a personal crusade to uncover the genetic roots of breast cancer. While still in her twenties, she has already made a famous discovery that made the cover of the prestigious journal Science -- quantifying the genetic variation between humans and chimpanzees. But her conviction that there is a hereditary basis to at least some forms of breast cancer is not widely shared. Nevertheless, her tireless research throughout the 1980's would end in a medical breakthrough -- the discovery of the location of the BRCA1 hereditary breast cancer gene --- considered one of the most important scientific discoveries of the twentieth century. At the age of 19, after the sudden death of her father, Anne ( Jade Duncan ) marries Paul ( Aaron Paul ) and soon is pregnant. She struggles to find a way in the world with her equally young but misguided husband and her older sister, Joan Parker ( Marley Shelton ) who tries to become a surrogate parent to Anne. But, cruelly, Joan contracts the same cancer that killed their mother, and in a few months, she, too, is dead. Annie ( Samantha Morton ) is diagnosed with the same disease that killed her mother and sister -- breast cancer. It is severe, and surgery and chemotherapy, with all the accompanying difficulties, soon follow. She loses her hair, and if that wasn't enough to endure, her husband, never really mature or stable, has begun an affair with Anne's closest friend Louise ( Alice Eve ), and leaves her. Paul is soon diagnosed with cancer and expires shortly before she is diagnosed with a second cancer. While Annie struggles, King is pursuing her belief that some forms of breast and ovarian cancer have a hereditary basis. While she captures headlines for her work applying DNA fingerprinting to help reunite "the disappeared" with their families in Argentina, her priority is to map the breast cancer gene. King focuses on collecting families with a particularly high incidence of breast cancer, suspecting that these cases are most likely to reveal any genetic predispositions. Advances in genetic mapping through the 1980's gradually allow her team to embark on studies to map the location of the BRCA1 gene. Finally, in 1990, King and her team find conclusive evidence linking DNA markers on chromosome 17 with an inherited flaw in a gene dubbed BRCA1. The work was presented at the American Society of Human Genetics conference in Cincinnati, and published in Science a short time later. Mary Claire King ended up on the cover of Time, and Anne Parker finally had the answer she herself had long sought. Anne Parker happily remarried ( Bradley Whitford ), and a few years later contracts cancer for a third time. And survives again. And she laughed while being treated, for reasons only she knew and understood.
• Based on true events, Decoding Annie Parker is the hopeful and touching story of two remarkable women and their 15-year battle against a cruel and insidious illness, breast cancer. Waged on both scientific and emotional fronts, they are drawn together not just by the disease but by their shared determination and unconventional approaches to their research and to their lives. Annie Parker (Samantha Morton) has a personal relationship with breast cancer. Her mother and her sister died of the disease and ultimately she is diagnosed with it too. Naturally affable with an offbeat sense of humor even in the face of her own mortality, she struggles to hold her family and life together, as her body betrays her. Meanwhile, geneticist Mary-Claire King (Helen Hunt) is convinced there is a link between DNA and cancer even if no one in her profession shares her belief. Against the advice of nearly all of her colleagues, she persists in her research and her dogged pursuit for funding that will lead to the groundbreaking study that will join the two women together. Decoding Annie Parker follows the incredible, irreverent and heartwarming story of how the paths of cancer survivor Annie Parker and geneticist Mary-Claire King intersect. With grace and humor the film chronicles how these remarkable women work to make one of the most important genetic discoveries of the 20th century.

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Movie Review: 'Decoding Annie Parker'

May 2, 2014 / 3:00 AM EDT / CBS Philadelphia

By Bill Wine KYW Newsradio 1060

PHILADELPHIA (CBS) -- Lots of movies are escapist in one way or another.  Decoding Annie Parker, the true story of a Toronto woman's battle with cancer, is just the opposite.

It offers itself as a grim conversation starter, confronting the issue of hereditary breast cancer.

The parallel stories of two women through the '70s and '80s are interwoven in this inspirational drama:  one is a cancer survivor, the other a cancer explorer.  Both battle the odds during fifteen-year journeys of desperation and determination.

One is that of the title character (played by Samantha Morton), a Canadian who grew up in a family that sees cancer as a monster that stalks them.

And as she feared, she is diagnosed with breast cancer, the same disease that claimed the lives of her grandmother, mother, and sister.  The life she lives from that point on is a nightmare filled with surgery and chemotherapy.

The other is that of Mary-Claire King (played by Helen Hunt), the stoic research geneticist at the University of California at Berkeley, who is convinced that there is a hereditary basis to certain forms of breast cancer –- certainly a minority view in the male-dominated medical profession.

King has undertaken as her mission the uncovering of breast cancer's genetic roots as she battles for credibility and consequent funding.

Their lives intersect because of King's fervent belief in genetic predispositions by collecting information on families with an unusually high incidence of breast cancer.

Annie doesn't get much support from her unreliable husband, a pool cleaner and musician (played by Aaron Paul), but a loyal nurse friend (Rashida Jones) and a sympathetic doctor (Corey Stull) help her cope, endure, survive, and solve the mystery that becomes her primary focus, which is the genetic secret that has taken the lives of her loved ones.

King's herculean research efforts result in a major medical breakthrough:  the 1990 discovery of conclusive evidence of the location of the BRCA1 hereditary breast cancer gene.

And knowledge about the link between DNA and cancer will forever profoundly affect the way cancer is diagnosed and treated.

Writer-producer-director Steven Bernstein, a cinematographer making his directing debut, co-wrote the script with his son, Adam Bernstein, and physician Michael Moss. There's a smidgen of gallows humor along the way, but for the most part the two tales are just related until they dovetail in a way that seems arbitrarily manufactured.

Let's face it: this is tough-sledding subject matter for the movie screen. And although it's an unsettling film to watch, we remain aware of, and impressed by, its level-of-difficulty ambitiousness.

And with so many lives so profoundly affected by this devastating disease, there's hardly anyone out there who's not somehow connected to whomever the target audience is.

So we'll cure 2½ stars out of 4 for the uplifting Decoding Annie Parker , a heartfelt real-life drama about one of life's toughest battles.

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“Decoding Annie Parker,” based on a true story, is an often uneasy, yet sentimental and witty tale of two women, one a cancer patient and the other a geneticist.

Canadian Annie Parker (Samantha Morton) battled breast cancer in the 1970s — and beat it. But after losing her mother and older sister to the disease, she becomes convinced that cancer is stalking her family.

Though most doctors then said cancer was a stroke of bad luck, Annie believes she’ll get breast cancer like her immediate family members. Annie checks for lumps daily. And after she discovers one, she must have her left breast removed.

Meanwhile, in Berkeley, California, geneticist Dr. Mary-Claire King (Helen Hunt) is researching genetic links to breast cancer. When Annie learns of this, she starts doing her own research with a medical student and former nurse (Rashida Jones).

Writer-director Steven Bernstein, who was inspired to write “Annie Parker” after reading Parker’s unpublished memoir, offsets gloomy moments in the film with ironic humor, as when Annie breaks from oral sex to suggest that she quickly check her husband for testicular cancer.

King, who eventually identified the genetic link to certain types of cancer, spends most of the film ignoring Annie’s letters. And Hunt and Morton don’t appear onscreen together until the end of the movie, which makes this feel like two projects forced to mingle.

Additionally, Hunt never really displays her talents in this role.

But Bernstein’s willingness to show cancer’s intense darkness is admirable, though unsettling.

The most harrowing moments of “Decoding Annie Parker” come when a chemo-ridden Annie, having recovered from breast cancer, is suffering from ovarian cancer.

There to support her during much of her illness is her husband, an aspiring musician played by Aaron Paul.

Paul has an extremely simple presence next to the vastly talented Morton, who displays a compelling range of humility, drive and vulnerability.

Having lost most of her hair due to chemo, and with only one breast, Annie struggles to feel desirable. But she manages to maintain a bit of sass, even after she discovers that her husband has been unfaithful.

While talking to herself in the mirror she repeats, “Damn, you’re hot. One breast, no hair ... they all want you but they can’t have you.”

“Decoding Annie Parker,” an Entertainment One release, is rated R by the Motion Picture Association of America for “language and some sexual content.” Running time: 91 minutes. Two stars out of four.

MPAA definition of R: Restricted. Under 17 requires accompanying parent or adult guardian.

With Decoding Annie Parker , the cinematographer of White Chicks gets into directing

Decoding Annie Parker —the feature directing debut of Steve Bernstein, cinematographer of  The Waterboy ,  Corky Romano ,  White Chicks ,  LiTTLEMAN , and countless other films that aren’t exactly known for their cinematography—is a multi-decade drama painted in the broadest strokes possible. In the scenes set in the early ’70s, the men all have Martin Van Buren sideburns and the women wear floral-print dresses. The onset of the ’80s is signaled by a shot of a yellow Ford Fiesta. A montage indicates the passage of time by dissolving from a Commodore PET to a series of increasingly more sophisticated beige box computers. Over the course of the film, one character goes, Buck Swope-style, from longhaired mod to eyeliner-wearing punk to blazer-clad New Waver. Every period is soundtracked by cheaper-to-license covers of famous songs. Just in case viewers miss something, there are title cards and cutesy narration to help them along.

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Much like the Klingon anatomy, which provides every organ with a backup in case of battlefield injury, the movie’s narrative is full of just-in-case redundancies. In the opening minutes, three separate title cards announce the movie’s tone (“My life was a comedy. I just had to learn to laugh. —Annie Parker”), level of realism (the never-convincing “Based on actual events”), and setting (the classic “Toronto, Canada”). In the event that viewers miss that last one or are unfamiliar with the concept of Canada, the movie’s narration periodically reiterates that protagonist Annie Parker (Samantha Morton) lives in Toronto, that she and her family are Canadians, that Canadians enjoy a sport called hockey, that Canada is cold, and that the pool-cleaning business run by Parker’s husband, Paul (Aaron Paul), is inherently funny because Canada is not known for the sort of warm weather that merits outdoor swimming pools or their cleaning.

The movie intercuts scenes from Parker’s life, which include two marriages and two lengthy struggles with cancer, with the story of non-Canadian geneticist Mary-Claire King (Helen Hunt) and her research on the causes of breast cancer. As hackneyed as the movie’s portrayal of Parker’s life might be, it seems subtly shaded in comparison to the King narrative, which mostly consists of people in lab coats saying things aloud that they should already know, using easy-to-follow metaphors while pointing to a conveniently posted chart or diagram. King’s first major scene has her speaking to a college administrator whose every sentence begins with a variation on “So what you mean to say is…” followed by an explanation of King’s research and the general attitude toward the idea of genetic causes for cancer at the time. In the process of trying to make a science story—the decades-long search for the breast-cancer gene—as broadly appealing as possible, the movie ends up pushing out everything that could make such a story compelling. 

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