Matter of Life and Dating is a 2007 Lifetime Television movie, directed by Peter Wellington and starring Rachael Harris, Ricki Lake, and Holly Robinson Peete.
Matters of Life and Dating | |
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Directed by | Peter Wellington |
Written by | Nina Colman |
Based on | Up Front by Linda Dackman |
Produced by | Philip K. Kleinbart Ricki Lake Barbara Lieberman Michael Mahoney Salli Newman |
Starring | Ricki Lake Holly Robinson Peete Rachael Harris |
Cinematography | Joel Ransom |
Edited by | Susan Shipton |
Music by | Anton Sanko |
Production companies | Lifetime Television Magic Rock Productions |
Distributed by | Lifetime Television |
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Running time | 90 minutes |
Countries | United States, Canada |
Language | English |
Linda is a single woman who must re-enter the dating world after undergoing a mastectomy and breast reconstruction surgery due to cancer.
The film is based on the memoirs of Linda Dackman.[1] Lifetime approached songwriters Kara DioGuardi and James Poyser to write a song, "My Bra" performed by Mýa, for the film.[2]
Matters of Life and Dating premiered on Lifetime Television on October 22, 2007, as part of the channel's "Stop Breast Cancer for Life" campaign.[3]
Kevin McDonough of the Intelligencer Journal criticized the film, writing that "It's hard to find fault with a movie trying to help women cope with a life-threatening illness, but Linda's plight might be more accessible if she weren't so darned successful and living such a fabulous two-double-latte-a-day existence and having to fend off so many handsome suitors."[1] A reviewer for the Akron Beacon Journal was also critical, as they felt that Lake's performance was one of the film's major flaws.[4]
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