Flair Magazine To pay tribute to Breast Cancer Awareness Month, aka Pinktober, bring you a guide for inspiring, heartfelt movies about breast cancer. Whether you’ve fought/are fighting breast cancer right now or have a loved one who has to, this is for you. Hopefully, movies like these would inspire hope, family support and courage for both fighters and their loved ones throughout this tough journey.
Decoding Annie Parker
Based on a true story, this film is about Annie Parker, the breast cancer survivor whose diagnosis helped doctors discover the BRCA1 breast cancer gene that shows that breast cancer can be hereditary in women. With teary eyes, you’ll watch her fight the disease that took both her mother and sister.
Terms of Endearment
While this film is an oldie, it is definitely worth watching the brilliant cast, starring Shirley MacLaine, Debra Winger and Jack Nicholson. The plot follows a wavering, tense mother-daughter relationship, as the daughter discovers she has breast cancer and has to lean on her mother for support.
The Family Stone
While this is more of a typical, funny Christmas movie, if you give it a closer, you will see it revolves around deeper family issues. Diane Keaton plays the mom who wants all family members home for Christmas to surround her after she has been recently diagnosed with breast cancer.
Pieces of April
Starring Katie Holmes and Patricia Clarkson, this film is about a wild, rebellious daughter who realizes life is too short to hold grudges and so invites her diagnosed mother and whole family over for Thanksgiving dinner as an attempt to restore relationships.
1 A Minute
This is the most inspiring film we could recommend. It puts on record the journey of diagnosis and treatment of a breast cancer survivor, mingled with personal interviews with famous international celebrities who are either survivors or affected closely by cancer.
Miss You Already
This movie is all about true-blue friendship and it will probably drive you to tears. It follows two best friends as one of them starts a family while the other becomes sick. Not to mention, the film’s stars include Drew Barrymore, Toni Collette and Dominic Cooper.
Five
Five stories following the lives of five women who are all diagnosed with breast cancer, each story directed by a separate female director, including Alicia Keys and Jennifer Aniston. Why this movie is on our list is because it authentically portrays what women actually go through when fighting breast cancer, from having to tell their family members to learning to deal with the life-changing news.
Mondays at Racine
In this beautiful, heartfelt documentary, we watch sisters Rachel and Cynthia, owners Racine Salon and Spa, open their doors to women fighting breast cancer every third Monday of the month. After watching their mother go through the same battle, they decide to devote their time and skills to pamper and spoil these women.
