One Week

– Ben Tyler (Joshua Jackson) has been diagnosed with cancer. With a grim chance of survival in the bes..

Type:
Movie
Rating:
7.10 / 10
Duration:
One Hour and 34 Minutes
Release Year:
2008
One Week (2008)

Ben Tyler (Joshua Jackson) has been diagnosed with cancer. With a grim chance of survival in the best case scenario even if he immediately begins treatment, he instead decides to take a motorcycle trip from Toronto through the Canadian prairies to British Columbia.

One Week (2008) - Trailer

Release Date:

06 Mar 2009

Language:

English, French

MPAA Content-Rating:
Not Rated

Director:

Michael McGowan

Writer:

Michael McGowan, Marguerite Pigott (story editor)

Main Actors:

Joshua Jackson, Peter Spence, Marc Strange, Gage Munroe

Plot:

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?

Awards:

1 win & 3 nominations.

Production:

IFC Films

Ratings:
Internet Movie Database:
7.1/10
Rotten Tomatoes:
50%