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Chasing Life

  • TV Series
  • 2014–2015
  • TV-14
  • 1h
IMDb RATING
7.8/10
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Italia Ricci in Chasing Life (2014)
April Carver, whose world has just started to look up, is diagnosed with leukemia. With the support of her family and best friend, she might just be able to fight it.
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April Carver, whose world has just started to look up, is diagnosed with leukemia. With the support of her family and best friend, she might just be able to fight it.April Carver, whose world has just started to look up, is diagnosed with leukemia. With the support of her family and best friend, she might just be able to fight it.April Carver, whose world has just started to look up, is diagnosed with leukemia. With the support of her family and best friend, she might just be able to fight it.

  • Creators
    • Susanna Fogel
    • Marco Lagarde
    • Joni Lefkowitz
  • Stars
    • Italia Ricci
    • Mary Page Keller
    • Richard Brancatisano
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  • IMDb RATING
    7.8/10
    6.1K
    YOUR RATING
    POPULARITY
    4,523
    219
    • Creators
      • Susanna Fogel
      • Marco Lagarde
      • Joni Lefkowitz
    • Stars
      • Italia Ricci
      • Mary Page Keller
      • Richard Brancatisano
    • 27User reviews
    • 4Critic reviews
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    • Awards
      • 5 nominations

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    Rebecca Schull, Haley Ramm, and Italia Ricci in Chasing Life (2014)
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    Italia Ricci
    Italia Ricci
    • April Carver
    Mary Page Keller
    Mary Page Keller
    • Sara Carver
    Richard Brancatisano
    Richard Brancatisano
    • Dominic…
    Haley Ramm
    Haley Ramm
    • Brenna Carver
    Aisha Dee
    Aisha Dee
    • Beth Kingston
    Scott Michael Foster
    Scott Michael Foster
    • Leo Hendrie
    Abhi Sinha
    Abhi Sinha
    • Danny Gupta
    Rebecca Schull
    Rebecca Schull
    • Emma
    Jessica Meraz
    Jessica Meraz
    • Natalie Ortiz
    Steven Weber
    Steven Weber
    • Dr. George Carver
    Merrin Dungey
    Merrin Dungey
    • Dr. Susan Hamburg
    Gracie Dzienny
    Gracie Dzienny
    • Greer Danville
    Shi Ne Nielson
    Shi Ne Nielson
    • Raquel Avila
    Dylan Gelula
    Dylan Gelula
    • Ford
    Rob Kerkovich
    Rob Kerkovich
    • Graham
    Augusto Aguilera
    Augusto Aguilera
    • Kieran
    Todd Waring
    Todd Waring
    • Bruce Hendrie
    Parker Mack
    Parker Mack
    • Finn Madill
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      • Marco Lagarde
      • Joni Lefkowitz
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    • Trivia
      While looking for a flight at the airport in the Season 1 finale, Sara (Mary Page Keller) says to George (Steven Weber), "I've never even heard of Sandpiper Air." Sandpiper Air was the airline owned and operated by Weber's character Brian on the show Wings (1997). Wings (1997) also starred Rebecca Schull who plays April's grandma, Emma, on Chasing Life (2014).
    • Connections
      Referenced in Midnight Screenings: The Fault in Our Stars/Edge of Tomorrow (2014)

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    8/10
    A Hard Topic To Please Everyone
    I have been in remission for almost two years yet I have other health issues that overlap my recovery and is forming a new sense of life and help me reflect how cancer has changed it. Chasing Life is simply attempting to help us understand that you can't understand fully what it's like to have cancer, and those who have cancer are able to relate in ways no show has demonstrated in an entertainment narrative.

    There are many simple non verbal queues this shows uses to tell its story, but unfortunately it pays more attention to "keeping secrets" to keep the anticipation going. The subplot of the father's secrets was brilliant, and helped the character understand the missing pieces in her life, but also why cancer was in her life.

    How we live our lives is sometimes misunderstood. Cancer helps you face your fears of the choices you've made and how you use of time. Time being your most valuable commodity, the show attempts to use a terminal character to make that impact.

    It's unfortunate, that with my personality, it's hard for me to understand things such as these until I have to face them myself in these dark cavernous chapters in my life. This show hit home in ways like no other show in any context. You feel foolish when you have cancer. You feel like your life has been lived in folly, because you miss the whole point. April Carver was heading down that road as success and achievement was more important than living and caring. That was her lesson and its ours as well.

    Italia played the "That Girl" archetype well. She used no acting devices to convey the character's misses and home runs. A lot of montage and music accompanied this which often became annoying but may have been necessary for emotional moments.

    For those who haven't had cancer, you need it to understand. It changes how you think and think of this show. I found this show assisting me in my anguish about my life's choices and even though the show ended after two seasons, and the ending was tethered, the character grew from the experience, and that is the purpose of cancer.

    You learn compassion, sensitivity, pain, discomfort, foolishness, humility, you feel death coming closer. Most importantly its to help us understand to treat others better.

    This was an ambitious project. The tone was all well in good. The side stories were unnecessary and better choices could have been made rather than socio-political ones. I loved the second family and father betrayal of trust. Life is complicated and those around us also make choices and sometimes they affect us. Life is tragic, no doubt.

    Life is what we live, chasing it is a concept we form in our minds. Cancer helps us understand what "chasing" really means. This show's concept could continue with other characters, and even pushed her to survive and change her life in a direction nobody would think possible. We want to believe and feel that life continues. Chasing Life can seem fleeting as a thought, because it is. We can't stop time so chasing it seems foolish. That is the tinge in the meaning of the title if you get it.

    The tone was this show's greatest strength and denying the idea of cancer from an entertainment platform could have been easy. People don't like the topic and with good reason but the show managed to keep it entertaining. Yes, secrets were used as a device and other devices could have made the show more thought out, but its strength was in the realization from how other characters changed her life.

    I still felt she was a foolish woman. Her biggest flaw was the over caring of The Self. It was displayed in how she married a terminal man even knowing that the operation could eventually kill him when she wanted a future. She turned away a perfectly good relationship because "he couldn't understand" like Leo could. That was the biggest mistake she made in rooting for her change. She never realized her miss in life because she remained concerned about The Self even till the last scene, where she noted she had done everything. That was a miss, but it was the end and that was okay.

    For my cancer is about confession. It's a part of your life where you stop your routine thought process and realize what you've been doing wrong and acknowledge it. April needed to acknowledge her lifeless ambitions were fraught in futility, and she needed to spend more time thinking of others. That action and decision would have arc'd the character more and helped all of us feel and understand that putting others first is our mission in life and we chase life each day to understand and feel that.

    Hope this helps.
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    • Release date
      • June 10, 2014 (United States)
    • Countries of origin
      • Mexico
      • United States
    • Official sites
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    • Language
      • English
    • Also known as
      • Trka sa životom
    • Filming locations
      • Santa Clarita, California, USA
    • Production companies
      • Televisa
      • Televisa USA
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      • Dolby Digital
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      • 16:9 HD

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