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Like a Drug

1999 · 135 min · Director: Barbara Sass ★ IMDb 5.8 · 64 ratings

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18-year-old Anna finds out she's terminally ill and has only a few years left. Fragile girl changes her mindset, starts living out the remaining time as intensively as possible and marries Piotr, a student whom she just met in sanatorium.

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Like a Drug (1999) — Movie. Top emotional signals: Sadness 40%, Empathy 25%, Melancholy 20%. Source: AI estimate. Shares describe emotional signal, not percentages of people. Your experience may differ. How we measure

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The strongest emotional signals are Sadness, Empathy, Melancholy. Genres: Drama. AI estimate.

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Cast

MC
Magdalena Cielecka

MC
Magdalena Cielecka

Anna Piwowska

TB
Teresa Budzisz-Krzyżanowska

TB
Teresa Budzisz-Krzyżanowska

Anna's mother

AW
Andrzej Wichrowski

IP
Igor Przegrodzki

JF
Jerry Flynn

BO
Bartosz Opania

MB
Mariusz Bonaszewski

CM
Cezary Morawski

MR
Małgorzata Rożniatowska

Orderly

JM
Jarosława Michalewska

Nurse (as Slawa Michalewska)

DK
Dorota Kiełkowicz

Piotr's sister

IB
Iwona Bielska

Aunt in London

OT
Ola Tokarska

White Girl

ED
Elżbieta Dębska

KŁ
Katarzyna Łukaszyńska

MK
Magdalena Kacprzak

Student Agnieszka Wróbel (uncredited)

MJ
Monika Jarosińska

Waitress (uncredited)

PS
Patrycja Szczepanowska

Girl (uncredited)

Details

Directed by
Barbara Sass
Written by
Barbara Sass
Type
Movies
Released
1999
Runtime
135 min
Country
Poland
Genres
Drama
Ratings
★ IMDb 5.8 · 64 ratings
Feels mostly
Sadness
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