Product Details

• Actors: No Hair Day, Debbie Dorsey, Carol Potoff and Elsa Dorfman Libby Levinson
• Format: Color, NTSC
• Language: English
• Rated: NR (Not Rated)
• Number of tapes: 1
• Studio: Wgbh Boston
• VHS Release Date: May 29, 2001
• Run Time: 60 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (17 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B00005MMA5
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #338,481 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

Editorial Reviews

Riveting, brave, touching, funny, heartwarming, stirring, moving and inspiring, portraits don’t get more intimate than No Hair Day. With astonishing pride, candor and courage, three women, brought together by medical fate, reveal that the new face of cancer isn’t always frowning. One of nine American women will develop breast cancer. Here’s how three fought for their lives.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars It's what is in your head, not what's on top of it., February 7, 2002

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andrea (Boston, MA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: No Hair Day: Laughing (and Crying) Our Way Through Breast Cancer [VHS] (VHS Tape)

"No Hair Day" is not about plot development, story line, or action. Rather, this is a film about character. As Debbie, Libby, and Carol, three women with breast cancer, slowly shed wigs, clothing, and inhibitions, we are priviledged to see their inner beings revealed.

Through the double lenses of Elsa Dorfman's enormous Polaroid camera and that of the filmmaker, we watch and listen as the women share their stories. All three are undergoing chemotherapy and struggle with the emotional and physical (hence the title) impact of the disease. They manage to find strength and comfort in their bond, and so do we.

For all women who are wives, mothers, daughters, and friends, who have had breast cancer or know someone who has, this is an important and life affirming film. When asked on camera "How has cancer changed your life?" Debbie first laughs, then cries. I did too.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Anything but depressing!, February 7, 2002

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"paul_solman" (Boston, Mass. USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: No Hair Day: Laughing (and Crying) Our Way Through Breast Cancer [VHS] (VHS Tape)

A friend of mine wouldn't watch this because she thought it would be too upsetting. No, no, no. Here are three women giving life all they've got -- and a fourth, Elsa Dorfman, taking her trademark giant Polaroids of them in dozens of poses and guises -- as the video cameraman, Dorsey's husband, captures it all. Of course it's not all happy talk (this is cancer, after all), but it's real and joyful and absolutely riveting. Even better the second time around.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars personal, engaging, February 1, 2002

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"mlewis012" (Allston, MA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: No Hair Day: Laughing (and Crying) Our Way Through Breast Cancer [VHS] (VHS Tape)

A personal, engaging video about losing your hair to chemotherapy, "No Hair Day" shows three women on a photo shoot talking about their diagnosis, chemotherapy, and how cancer has changed their lives. We watch as one woman goes to the hospital and receives chemotherapy and another as she reads her poem about losing a breast. All together, the intimacy and vitality in this video creates a more uplifting and complex depiction of life with cancer than I've ever seen. I would highly recommend this video to anyone going through it or anyone who knows someone going through it.