<P> Nelson Moss meets Sara Deever, a woman very different from anyone he has met before . His ignorance leads to her failing her driving test . She beguiles him and continually asks him to spend a month with her on the promise that she will change his life for the better . On the first night of November, after Nelson is fired and dumped on the same day, she sleeps with him, and the next day Chaz, a close friend of Sara's, arrives and refers to Nelson as Sara's "November". </P> <P> Throughout November, the two experience happy times together and fall in love . Nelson examines his life and past, and befriends a fatherless child named Abner . Eventually, he realizes he is in love with Sara and asks her to marry him . It is revealed that Sara has terminal cancer, Non-Hodgkin lymphoma . Because she cannot bear to have Nelson experience her death, she asks him to leave . Sara tells Chaz that Nelson proposed to her . Chaz says that it wasn't the first time that a man had proposed, implying Sara has had numerous "months" before . Sara confirms this but claims it was the first time she had wanted to say yes . She decides she will not continue the relationship to protect Nelson from being hurt . Nelson complies, but then stages a surprise return during the Thanksgiving holiday, giving her gifts that remind her of their happy times . </P> <P> They stay together for one more day; he posts November calendars all over her apartment walls, saying it can always be November for them . They make love, but the next morning, Nelson finds Sara is dressed . She asks him to leave, with all his calendars taken down . Nelson becomes confused and heartbroken . Sara asks Nelson to let her go so that he will always have happy memories of her and explains that this is how she needs to be remembered . She will return home to her family (whom she had been avoiding) and face her last days . The movie ends with Sara blindfolding Nelson, giving him one last kiss, and then walking away . Nelson then takes off the blindfold in tears, and is later shown at a park they went to on one of their dates . </P> <Ul> <Li> Keanu Reeves as Nelson Moss </Li> <Li> Charlize Theron as Sara Deever </Li> <Li> Jason Isaacs as Chaz Watley </Li> <Li> Greg Germann as Vince Holland </Li> <Li> Lauren Graham as Angelica </Li> <Li> Liam Aiken as Abner </Li> <Li> Frank Langella as Edgar Price </Li> <Li> Ray Baker as Buddy Leach </Li> <Li> Michael Rosenbaum as Brandon / Brandy </Li> <Li> Robert Joy as Raeford Dunne </Li> <Li> Jason Kravits as Manny </Li> <Li> Tom Bullock as Al </Li> </Ul>

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