The Life List (2025)

When my spouse is on call or I am traveling for work I like to watch very light weight movies that he would not much enjoy, and this is just that. The difference is that for the most part these play the same role that reading murder mysteries do for me--something that I can wind down to that don't take too much in the way of attention. This one is quite formaulaic--a 30-something woman, Alex, is playing it safe by working for her mother and living at home while she is taking a pause, including being involved with someone who she is more biding her time with than in love with. It all changes when her mother's cancer comes back. Her mother elects comfort care and when Alex finds out that her mother gave her job to her sister-in-law and leaves her with the task of completing a Life List that she wrote when she was 13 years old in order to hear what she inherits. Yes, we know what will happen from the get go, and yet, it was a very enjoyable journey for me. I am not one to micro-manage, as Alex's mother saw fit, but watching it unfold was quite entertaining for me. There are literally no surprises, which is kind of the point of this genre and I definitely got what I was hoping for from it.