{{Use mdy dates|date=April 2025}} {{Infobox television | image = Two Against Time (2002) Film Poster.jpg | image_alt = | caption = Promotional image | genre = Drama | writer = {{Plainlist| * Casey Kurtti * Peter Nelson }} | director = David Anspaugh | starring = {{Plainlist| * Marlo Thomas * Ellen Muth * Peter Friedman * Karen Robinson * Joe Penny}} | narrator = | music = David Shire | country = United States | language = English | executive_producer = {{Plainlist| * Carol Abrams * Adrienne Levin * Marlo Thomas }} | producer = Lynn Raynor | editor = Christopher Cibelli | location = Toronto | cinematography = Johnny E. Jensen | runtime = 100 minutes | company = {{Plainlist| * Columbia TriStar Television * Let's Pretend Productions * Open Road Productions }} | budget = | network = CBS | released = {{Start date|2002|04|21}} }} '''''Two Against Time''''' is a 2002 American drama television film starring Marlo Thomas and Ellen Muth. It was directed by David Anspaugh and written by Casey Kurtti and Peter Nelson. The film originally aired on CBS on April 21, 2002.
==Plot== A mother and her daughter are, almost at same time, diagnosed with cancer. Now, the struggle against the illness will set them close and help them to overcome old antagonisms.
==Cast== * Marlo Thomas as Julie Portman * Ellen Muth as Emma Portman * Peter Friedman as Robert Portman * Karen Robinson as Connie Matthews * Joe Penny as George Tomich * Troy Hall as Michael Portman
==Production== Filming took place in Toronto.<ref name="Variety">{{cite web|last=Oxman|first=Steven|title=Review: 'Two Against Time'|url=https://variety.com/2002/tv/reviews/two-against-time-1200550234/|website=Variety|date=18 April 2002|access-date=31 May 2017|archive-date=29 December 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161229010323/http://variety.com/2002/tv/reviews/two-against-time-1200550234/|url-status=live}}</ref>
==Reception== Andy Webb from ''The Movie Scene'' gave the film three out of five stars, stating: "What this all boils down to is that I am still conflicted by "Two Against Time" because of the mix of heart-breaking and heart-warming which ends up causing the gritty drama to be softened. But it is a powerful story, powerfully acted and a movie which whilst may leave you as conflicted as I am, is well worth a watch."<ref>{{cite web|last1=Webb|first1=Andy|title=Two Against Time (2002)|url=http://www.themoviescene.co.uk/reviews/two-against-time-2002/two-against-time-2002.html|website=The Movie Scene|access-date=31 May 2017|archive-date=28 June 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170628013212/http://www.themoviescene.co.uk/reviews/two-against-time-2002/two-against-time-2002.html|url-status=live}}</ref> David Parkinson from Radio Times gave the movie only one out of five stars and wrote: "It's a cheap jibe to dismiss TV movies as "disease of the week" fodder. Unfortunately, this drama from director David Anspaugh ticks all the boxes. It's based on a true story and not only has two people battling against cancer, but, to make matters all the more lachrymose, they're a single mother and her rebellious teenage daughter."<ref>{{cite web|last1=Parkinson|first1=David|title=Two against Time|url=http://www.radiotimes.com/film/mj52x/two-against-time|website=Radio Times|access-date=31 May 2017|archive-date=27 December 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161227090438/http://www.radiotimes.com/film/mj52x/two-against-time|url-status=live}}</ref> Steven Oxman from ''Variety'' said about ''Two Against Time'': "TV movies are dead, you know. They don't make them anymore. At least not the traditional ones. Admirably capable of exhausting a year's supply of tissues in a single sitting, "Two Against Time" will be a miracle cure for fans of this shamelessly sappy genre in its death throes."<ref name="Variety"/> Tom Shales from ''The Washington Post'' criticized almost every aspect of the film, stating: "There have been many TV movies about the emotional and physical ravages of serious illness, most of them more sensitive than this one. Those who made "Two Against Time" imagine we've never seen any of those films and that hair loss from chemotherapy is going to come as a shock. There are worlds and worlds of difference between a lackluster movie like this and HBO's "Wit," in which Emma Thompson so memorably and unflinchingly played a terminal cancer patient."<ref>{{cite news|last=Shales|first=Tom|author-link=Tom Shales|date=April 19, 2002|title=CBS's 'Two Against Time': Enough to Make A Viewer Weep|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/2002/04/20/cbss-two-against-time-enough-to-make-a-viewer-weep/3bea3f50-faa0-450c-ab80-661c2cae0d91/|newspaper=The Washington Post|access-date=31 May 2017|archive-date=30 August 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180830041349/https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/2002/04/20/cbss-two-against-time-enough-to-make-a-viewer-weep/3bea3f50-faa0-450c-ab80-661c2cae0d91/|url-status=live}}</ref>
==References== {{reflist}}
==External links== * {{IMDb title|id=tt0278785}}
{{David Anspaugh}}
Category:2002 television films Category:2002 films Category:2002 American films Category:2002 drama films Category:2002 English-language films Category:2002 in American television Category:American drama television films Category:CBS films Category:English-language drama films Category:Films about cancer in the United States Category:Films about mother–daughter relationships Category:Films about single parent families Category:Films directed by David Anspaugh Category:Films scored by David Shire Category:Films shot in Toronto Category:Sony Pictures Television films