How long is tuesdays with morrie

Top credits Director Mick Jackson. See more at IMDbPro. Photos Top cast Edit. Wendy Moniz-Grillo Janine as Janine. Caroline Aaron Connie as Connie. Bonnie Bartlett Charlotte as Charlotte. John Carroll Lynch Walter as Walter. Terri Hanauer Eva as Eva …. Charles Homet Rob as Rob. Ivo Cutzarida Sergio as Sergio. Mick Jackson. More like this. Watch options. Storyline Edit. Mitch became caught up with his career as a sport commentator and journalist.

He ignored his girlfriend and did not make time to do things in life that are of the most value to a human being. Morrie was one of Mitch's professors in college and a famous scholar. Add content advisory. Did you know Edit. Trivia Last credited film role of Jack Lemmon. Goofs Mitch is supposedly a talented pianist who gave up a promising career in music, yet in the recording studio when the producer asks for an F Mitch plays an F.

Quotes Morrie Schwartz : When you learn how to die, you learn how to live. User reviews 45 Review. Top review. Deals with things most people are scared of! Although this movie was a made for TV movie and the fade outs left me feeling like I was about to see a commercial, this movie is great. This movie deals with aspects of life that people don't like to talk about openly when in reality they are all just part of life: love, friendship, who you are, elderly, and most of all death.

This movie addresses death unlike I have seen other movies do. It confronts death straight on and gives you a different view on it all. I think that this should be required by every high school student to read, but we should be allowed to examine it by ourselves without lesson plans, and I think this is why not many teachers require us to read it.

The meaning of the book gets lost when someone else explains it to you. One of the most beautiful thought provoking books I have ever read. Condenses all the key messages of life.. Sometimes the best messages are the simple ones , as a species we always try to over egg the cake and much good it does us. The end will come to us all , and I would rather live by this books mantra than that of the current culture around around me today?

You never know what is gonna come through that door. See all 39 questions about Tuesdays with Morrie…. Lists with This Book. Community Reviews. Showing Average rating 4. Rating details. More filters. Sort order. Start your review of Tuesdays with Morrie. Nov 16, A rated it did not like it. Ugh, it was like stapling together eighty greeting cards and reading them straight through. View all 77 comments. Dec 16, Trevor I sometimes get notified of comments rated it did not like it.

I have decided to delete this review. It was not my intention to upset anyone who either suffered from the disorder discussed in this book nor anyone related to such a person See comment Nonetheless, I still believe this to be a particularly poorly written book that contains more saccharine than substance.

Still, if it brings you some sense of comfort - more strength to you. I have chosen not to delete the comments thread as not all of the comments are mine to delete. View all comments. Jul 12, Ahmad Sharabiani rated it really liked it Shelves: 20th-century , adult , united-states , classics , self-help , non-fiction , memoir , biography , philosophy. Tuesday's With Morrie examines the interactions and phenomena between the human experience of living and dying. A theme of personal transcendence appears for both characters: Morrie and Albom.

View all 11 comments. But, like most students, Mitch lost contact with everything and anything to do with his undergraduate years as soon as he graduated. That is ALS is like a lit candle: it melts your nerves and leaves your b 4.

ALS is like a lit candle: it melts your nerves and leaves your body a pile of wax. So, Mitch on an impulse decides to visit Morrie one last time The class met on Tuesdays.

It began after breakfast. The subject was The Meaning of Life. It was taught from experience. Over the course of a couple of months, Mitch reconnects with Morrie and in the process, learns the last great lesson from his college professor.

If we did, we would do things differently. The slow progression of the disease, combined with Morrie's calm demeanor and Mitch's grief just absolutely cinched this book for me. How can you argue with lines like this?

Do I wither up and disappear, or do I make the best of my time left? His philosophy was that death should not be embarrassing; he was not about to powder her nose. This book was so refreshing, and sweet and beautiful. The author had such an amazing way with words. I cannot even begin to describe the feelings of peace that flowed through me. This should be on everyone's list.

His voice dropped to a whisper. Will you? View all 24 comments. Feb 16, Leftbanker rated it did not like it Shelves: just-horrible. I have some explaining to do. I buy books compulsively, especially when they are really inexpensive. I pass by a pawn shop about once a month to buy books for. Books in Spain are generally a bit expensive so at this price I will buy almost anything—even the two pieces of shit mentioned above.

I give away lots of books to friends and acquaintances, especially when they come this cheaply. I actually read Tuesdays with Morrie , or at least I speed-read part of it for the purposes of this essay and I had read Eat, Pray, Love some years ago, or at least most of it.

Both are best sellers meant for people who almost never read. They are books for people who claim a book is brilliant simply because they were able to finish it.

I'm reading, I'm really reading! Any book claiming to explain life's mysteries should set off the alarms for anyone with half a brain; books like the Bible, the Talmud, and the Koran fall into this category of trash. There's only wisdom and wisdom takes time, certainly more than the pages that make up Tuesdays with Morrie.

Answers are simply created by people who are terrified that there might not be answers. The problem is when religions or the Mitch Alboms and Elizabeth Gilberts of the world start infringing on the domain of the rational with their moronic explanations of the spiritual or existential. I would say that these institutions religions and hack writers constantly violate the airspace of the rational and scientific.

Tuesdays and Eat claim to be instruction manuals for life. They have about as much spiritual depth as a newspaper horoscope or a fortune cookie. A few examples: Learn to forgive yourself and forgive others. Accept the past as past and what you are not able to do. Morrie is a fountain of banalities. He was a sociology professor, not Heinrich Himmler. Wisdom is difficult to define but I think I know it when I see it. I ain't seeing it here. PS: If I dated a girl who had this book on her bed table I would probably escape by jumping out her third story bathroom window.

It would creep me out, like when that girl saw the fingernails on the wall in Silence of the Lambs. PPS: I wrote this mainly to get a few laughs. If you don't think the review is funny, it may just mean that you are a normal, well-adjusted human being.

People who write comedy aren't. Before you crucify me in the comments of this review, I suggest you read one of my reviews of a book that I loved.

There are many. I'm not always cynical skeptical. Afterword Liz Goodreads Friend mentioned that Saint Mitch Albom is actually a full-blown asshole who is completely contemptuous of people with shitty, minimum wage jobs—a more accurate description is the working poor.

How dare I have to repeat what I said to you about my coffee order! I don't care if you are distracted because you are worried sick because you don't have health care or a dental plan, and forget about making ends meet. Yes, the poor are to blame for the downfall of our republic, or whatever it is. View all 97 comments. Jul 24, Shaun rated it liked it Shelves: read-in , non-fiction.

This is one of those books where I find myself agreeing with the five star reviews and the one star reviews with almost equal enthusiasm. It's obvious that Albom's "Tuesdays with Morrie" provided them both with something substantially satisfying. And that's inspiring and poignant. Yet on the other hand, Albom's attempts to enlighten us transforms it into a "Hallmark" This is one of those books where I find myself agreeing with the five star reviews and the one star reviews with almost equal enthusiasm.

Yet on the other hand, Albom's attempts to enlighten us transforms it into a "Hallmark" card on steroids, a rather dramatic and prolonged one that does little more to demystify the true meaning of life than offer up tired and somewhat ambiguous cliches like "love conquers all.

A book worth reading, but not a life-changing or even an attitude-changing one. I should add that this book might hold more appeal to someone who,like Morrie, is coming to immediate terms with his own mortality as they may find inspiration in his personal story. View all 20 comments. So i didn't realise this book was actually nonfiction until after i'd just finished reading it..

This was a beautiful story, I would definitely recommend reading it if you haven't already. View all 5 comments. Feb 14, Amanda rated it it was amazing. I have never written a review like this before but this book truly inspired me. So I just finished reading "Tuesdays With Morrie".

What a wonderful book, I couldn't put it down! I cannot even imagine going through the last stages of my own life and being as brave for lack of a better word in my head right now as Morrie. He was filled with such happiness and joy in his own life. He had regrets but realized that it is ok as long as you can reconcile with yourself in the end. I'm not the type of p I have never written a review like this before but this book truly inspired me. I'm not the type of person to find quotes in the literature I read.

However, as I turned page after page through this book and submersed myself into the text I was reading I found myself getting out of bed in the middle of the night to find some post-its only to tag so many different paragraphs and pages that inspired me or had me think about things in my own life.

The idea of detaching oneself from emotions just baffled me. I myself fell in love and was heart broken in the end. I felt, and sometimes still feel, that I never want to experience such pain and heartache again. But Morrie says it best "If you hold back on the emotions - if you don't allow yourself to go through them - you can never get to being detached, you're too busy being afraid.

You're afraid of the pain, you're afraid of the grief. You're afraid of the vulnerability that loving entails. But by throwing yourself into these emotions, by allowing your self to dive right in, all the way, over your head even, you experience them fully and completely. You know what pain is. You know what love is. You know what grief is. And only then can you say, 'All right.

I have experienced that emotion. I recognize that emotion. Now I need to detach from that emotion for a moment. Another quote that I find so enlightening And at the end of life, when you get like me, you need others to survive right?

But here's the secret: in between, we need others as well. WHy should we focus on not having that special someone when truly many of us have multiple people in our lives who care for us and will be there for us in the end. Although Morrie does go on to say that everyone should find that love to marry.

But why do we need to? I know that there are people who would take care of me later in life. Those that will be there for me always.

While I hope to find my "true love" I still am blessed for those I have met in the past to years. I am only ashamed that I never saw them sitting right there in front of me until I read this book. Thank you for being there for me everyone! And, I hope for many more days spent with all of you and even more people to share my life with.

View all 27 comments. Nov 02, Fergus rated it it was amazing. Morrie smiles at me, the crinkled eyes, the crooked teeth. Love always wins. Is it Love? Or is it his dark twin half-brothers, Anxiety and Hopelessness? This wrestling match is REAL. Ordinary evil wants our soul. But so does LOVE. As long as we live, our devils will try with all their might to show us love is an illusion.

Love always wins but its detours are always painful. You must get it! You need the right kind of galaxy, in the right location, with the right orbit in that galaxy Just too bad.

Books like this are soft and human. The Films, though, when they come out, are hard and edgy. Thank goodness we have our books! Morrie is a guy you can wrap your imagination around, with the BOOK in your hand. Back in the war years, people were more concerned about being close to loved ones than with looking cool.

And Morrie knew that. He grew up in those years. Love and decency were the hallmark of that time. In spite of all those traps and snares around us! View all 28 comments. I didn't know this book was a memoir when I picked up this book. I wasn't even consciously looking for this book. It's one of the books in my sister's collection. But what this book offered me was something I wasn't expecting from it. This beautiful small book is divided into 27 small, concised chapters.

It's written in a very simple style but dang, it's the kind of simplicity that would destroy you I didn't know this book was a memoir when I picked up this book. It's written in a very simple style but dang, it's the kind of simplicity that would destroy you because it reaches you straightaway.

It talks about a retired professor who is suffering from a terminal disease. It's how he takes this inevitable journey till the end seeing it from a very different perspective from that of someone else's who would be in the same shoes as he was. He wants to document this journey with the people he cared about. This journey deals with the misconceptions and doubts about ageing, death and illnesses. It deals well with the concept of social relationships and the various relationships in one's life.

It's highly likely for anyone to become withdrawn, self-conscious and constantly bitter with such a condition but this old professor thought about doing something different and utilise his remaining time to be grateful and let the people in his life know what they mean to him and what difference they have made in his life.

The greatest lesson this memoir taught me is that our spirit dies earlier than our actual death. And this is the first ever book fiction or nonfiction that I am reading about an old person who has accepted themselves as how they are wholly, and this is the first book which represents the various psychological issues that old people face so vividly.

No, he wasn't in denial regarding what's happening with him. The issue of dealing with death is the main highlight of this book. The book talks about family, aging, money and marriage.

There are parts where it talks about the basic human emotions, the relations we have and the culture we are thriving in. This is one gem of a book! There is nothing in this book that makes you feel like you are not a part of this book. This book made me feel at home right away. Even though I cried a lot at the end, it was while I was accepting everything how the book was going to end, and about real life. I am sure I am going to reread this book after a decade.

Made me cry tears of realisation about many things about our mortal lives. View all 15 comments. Feb 03, Jared rated it it was ok. Review inspired by Eddie Greenwell Wisdom grows with age.

But the development of wisdom also accelerates when mortality becomes clear. The Bible, Koran and other religious books trumpet the theme that the relationships of familial love end up giving you ultimate joy in the end. It should be the same with non-fiction as well. In this story, the message is one of those direct, sappy ones: surround yourself with loved ones and know what is important, and don't get caught with money and business.

We have heard that a million times! The problem is that Tuesdays with Morrie seems like some kind of self help book. Albom needs to learn to give only the story and let the reader make of it what she wants. That is why his work comes across so sappy — one liners creep into the pages all over. Much of the content is the same. A character Eddie in "Five People They don't just live the story, they take on the empty-headed-learning perspective.

His characters don't bring much to the table, but seem naive and ignorant, without common sense. Along these lines, no character in good literature can just be told a lesson and then live it. For example, would A Christmas Carol really have been much of a story if the ghosts would have just sat down and talked to Ebenezer Scrooge—who is highly comparable to Mitch in this novel—and said "Hey, you work too much and you don't really enjoy life," and then Ebenezer just did it. No, Ebenezer had to live through the consequences of his lifestyle and then choose for himself.

The best part of a great and lasting character, and the part that Albom severely misses out on, is the growing. A good character doesn't just get told and then accept. Albom's characters are spoon-fed quotes and lessons like children and the reader is supposed to buy it! Well, I don't. I need to learn human development, not be told how to develop.

To jazz Tuesdays up, give us more of Mitch's life as a reporter. Not just glimpses of and a complete summary a literary no-no of his life as a business man. Albom needs to take the time out to develop the friction between Mitch's life in Detroit and his life at Brandeis. The true beauty about this inherent conflict that most readers can identify with is that there is an allure to making all that money and living it up as a great sports writer as opposed to living with less money but happier.

Some of Morries lessons are inconsistent, and the reader must forget what Albom heralded at the beginning of the encounter. For example, Morrie was adamant at the beginning of the novel that he was not embarrassed about his humanity; he lived his own life without thinking about his stature, power or wealth.

He claimed that one should never worry about what other people thought about him. Later in the book, after his ALS progressed, he complained about being embarrassed about how degenerate his body had become.

He stopped letting visitors be with him much and identified that his biggest thorn was that the nurse had to help him with his intimate needs in the bathroom. These inconsistencies make the reader confused as to whether Morrie progressed and realized his humanity or truly lived out of the rat race.

If Albom has grown as an author, it is simply to write in such a sappy dramatic way that the general public eats it up, but does not digest. As he says in Tuesdays: "Yet they gave up days and weeks of their lives, addicted to someone else's drama" Perhaps he should spend some time reading Hemmingway before his next novel, and really dig into the characters and conflicts.

It was too sappy to be taken seriously and truly learn from. Apr 05, Charlotte May rated it it was amazing Shelves: contemporary-recent , favourites , illness-mental-terminal , biography-memoir , tear-jerker , faith. I saw all the death in the world. I felt helpless. It was raw, thought provoking, heart breaking and real. Such a simple concept, a young man caught up in his busyness and business, competing to be the best in his job finds out that his old college professor is sick.

And so begins a tale of regular meetings between Mitch and his old professor - Morrie. I know this book wouldn't be everyone's cup of tea, but anything that makes me stop and think for a while a "I looked at him. I know this book wouldn't be everyone's cup of tea, but anything that makes me stop and think for a while and even tear up is what I love about reading. As a memoir, you don't have to agree with everything they discuss, it's just beautiful to hear thoughts from someone facing the end and to be reminded of our own humanity and fleeting lives.

This book touched me, what else can I say? View all 8 comments. May 19, Merphy Napier rated it really liked it Shelves: non-fiction , adult , four-stars. Moving, easily relatable if you've lost someone close to you, and filled with nuggets to take away for your own life.

I enjoyed this very much Moving, easily relatable if you've lost someone close to you, and filled with nuggets to take away for your own life.

I enjoyed this very much View 1 comment. I'd heard raves about "Tuesdays with Morrie," so I was went into this with high hopes due to hype,and this book delivered and enchanted me.

It is truly a book about teaching and teachable moments. A book for anyone that is looking for something that can help him or her through life when it gets hard. After college Mitch Albom was wrapped up in material things and career concerns until he was reunited with his dying professor.

Albom's time with Morrie Schwartz, before his death, is chronicled in this charming little book. What might've been super sappy, and at sometimes it is a little bit, otherwise comes through with heartfelt meaning and the sincerity with which it was so lovingly passed on to Albom as he talked with his friend in his dying days.

This book is not all heavy and filled with seriousness though, there's a great deal of humor in Morrie's attitude, lessons, and stories and I found myself laughing every now and then. I rated this book a five out of five because I think it's a book that every person should read at some point in his or her life.