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Summary Come See Me in the Good Light is a poignant and unexpectedly funny love story about poets Andrea Gibson and Megan Falley facing an incurable cancer diagnosis with joy, wit and an unshakable partnership. Through laughter and unwavering love, they transform pain into purpose, and mortality into a moving celebration of resilience.
Directed By: Ryan White
Come See Me in the Good Light
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Summary Come See Me in the Good Light is a poignant and unexpectedly funny love story about poets Andrea Gibson and Megan Falley facing an incurable cancer diagnosis with joy, wit and an unshakable partnership. Through laughter and unwavering love, they transform pain into purpose, and mortality into a moving celebration of resilience.
Directed By: Ryan White
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Metascore
Universal Acclaim Based on 11 Critic Reviews
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91% Positive
10 Reviews
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9% Mixed
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0% Negative
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Metascore
Universal Acclaim Based on 11 Critic Reviews
81
91% Positive
10 Reviews
10 Reviews
9% Mixed
1 Review
1 Review
0% Negative
0 Reviews
0 Reviews
Nov 14, 2025
Come See Me in the Good Light is a tender expression of love conquering all despite the burden of needing to go against the wind.
Nov 14, 2025
Nonfiction films often grapple with mortality and the meaning of existence, and usually those center on grief. This one wraps its arms around the full range of feeling that follows a terminal diagnosis: fear, love, desire, anger, wonder, hope, despair, even joy.
Nov 14, 2025
The film is true to Gibson’s persona, which is marked by everything you expect from a poet: thoughtfulness, tenderness, and thorough self-awareness.
Nov 25, 2025
White lands on an organic happy ending that doesn’t negate Gibson’s sad circumstance but, instead, reinforces everything that was so inspirational about their poetry and worldview.
Nov 14, 2025
White smartly weaves Gibson’s evolution as a poet and performer, commanding stages like a rockstar –“we called them the gay James Dean,” Falley jokes – with their hopes to stage one final show, a celebration of life before their death.
Nov 14, 2025
The movie is more than an admonition for the living; it’s also an achingly bittersweet love story about caregiving.
Nov 14, 2025
Learning about Gibson’s ‘roid rage from their treatment, and Falley’s acceptance of it, is a more moving example of their care for one another than much of what the film finds in their shared profession.
User Score
Generally Favorable Based on 4 User Ratings
7.3
75% Positive
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0% Mixed
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25% Negative
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1 Rating
User Score
Generally Favorable Based on 4 User Ratings
7.3
75% Positive
3 Ratings
3 Ratings
0% Mixed
0 Ratings
0 Ratings
25% Negative
1 Rating
1 Rating
Nov 14, 2025
"Come See Me in the Good Light" is a ****, yet lovely portrait of blinding, beautiful, reckless **** love; of time passing and slipping away, captured in small moments to be held and cherished like wildflowers plucked from the earth. In 2021, poet Andrea Gibson was diagnosed with an aggressive form of ovarian cancer that ultimately led to their death in July of this year. Before their death, director Ryan White chronicled Gibson's struggle with cancer as well as their marriage to fellow writer, Megan Falley, in Come See Me in the Good Light, a moving and deeply incisive portrait resilience and human connection in the face of death that takes a warts and all approach to the painful realities of living with cancer. I kept finding myself thinking of the line from Angels in America in which a dying man admonishes the Heavenly Council that "I want more life," despite the constant struggle and pain that accompanies in. Here we see a poet facing death, craving more life yet appreciating every lovely, painful, fleeting moment. By allowing Gibson's words to take center stage, White isn't so much documenting an artist's last show and final days, it feels as though new life is being breathed into them; a poem come to life, a ray of light in death's shadow. It is at once a tribute to Gibson as an artist, and also an appropriate effect for a film about the beauty in every second of life. The pace and cinematography beautifully match the poetic nature of its participants, and the documentary will have you in tears for happy and heartbreaking moments throughout. This doesn't feel like a paint-by-numbers life-of-the-artist documentary, it feels like a work of art all its own, at once an extension and an exploration of Gibson's art. Fans of the poet will likely find a lot to love here, but even for the uninitiated. "Come See Me in the Good Light" feels like something to be cherished, a work of gossamer beauty that reinforces the power of its poet's words.
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Production Company
- Amplify Pictures
- Something Fierce Productions
- Tripod Media
Release Date Nov 14, 2025
Duration 1 h 44 m
Rating TV-MA
Genres
Awards
Cleveland International Film Festival
• 2 Wins & 3 Nominations
Boulder International Film Festival
• 2 Wins & 2 Nominations
Virginia Film Festival
• 2 Wins & 2 Nominations
