This superior soapy chick-flick gets by on the strength of the writing and strong casting. A failsafe dramatic triple-strike of best friends, pregnancy and cancer actually offers little new, but there is a zippy script and a moderate use of cliché (tolerable use of London landmarks, and forgivable conceits like the juxtaposition of an autumn-sun-dappled happy couple with wintry blue-hued shots of a marriage in trouble, for example). Toni Collette is majesterial in the breadth and sincerity of her performance, with Drew Barrymore just about keeping up. The male characters are inevitably female-fantasy-figures (roadie-turned-family-man, solid-supportive-provider, floppy-haired toyboy) but Dominic Cooper and Paddy Considine are reliable presences, and Jacqueline Bisset is a pleasing surprise as the ascerbic free-spirited matriarch. No surprises then, but Miss You Already is a well-made, strongly-written and nicely-performed example of a well-worn genre.
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