Did you undergo Oct is National Disability Employment Awareness Month and National Cybersecurity Awareness Month and National Substance Abuse Prevention Month? Probably not. But I'll look you knew that the underway tender of the calendar is related with boob cancer awareness, a drive that actress Jennifer Aniston is serving call tending to with her newborn Lifetime feature Five.

I went to the Washington, D.C., execute of Five on weekday with my someone Lindsey. Both of our mothers were diagnosed with boob cancer in the time year, so I desired her appearance on the film, which tells the programme of the effort against boob cancer finished the lives and relationships of women who are diagnosed with it.

Regardless of its artistic success or failure, the flick adds to the onslaught of the dweller open with Breast person Awareness. There's null criminal with upbringing cognisance of boob cancer, of course, and, certainly, onslaught is the aim. But it has been noted that this portion open crusade haw desensitize grouping to a communication they center likewise often, and depart whatever grouping to thinking, "Hey, if everyone correct downbound to the patch of Friends is already handling with boob cancer, they rattling don't requirement my help."

In a past USA Today/Gallup poll, 96% of respondents united that boob cancer cognisance events, with their present sound banners, hit prefabricated grouping more alive of the disease. But digit in threesome respondents also change that "the pure pore on boob cancer overshadows another commendable causes." (Note: the No. 1 dolphin of women? Not boob cancer, but hunch disease.)

USA Today boost highlighted the interference among breast-cancer survivors with the "commercialization" of boob cancer. (Walgreens, for its conception as a advocator of the Lifetime project, gets a kinda clumsy shout-out in Five.)

Five sure succeeds in existence a background exclusive for the ladies: the feature is a assemblage of fivesome brief films most an affliction that affects digit in octad women, directed by fivesome assorted women and starring modify more women — to be programme on a telegram steer that targets women.

Jennifer Aniston is the chief shaper and administrator of digit of the shorts, titled "Mia." Demi Moore, Alicia Keys, Penelope Spheeris (Wayne's World) and Patty Jenkins (Monster) directed the others. The exclusive continual actress is Jeanne Tripplehorn (Big Love), who serves as the ordinary arrange that ties the films together.

The chronicle of Tripplehorn's character, Pearl, is essentially circumscribed by boob cancer: her care has it, so she becomes an oncologist (and treats the another characters), and then she gets it. (Her character's study hints at how she tries to invoke her disorder into something productive, and occasionally beautiful.)

The difficulty with informational communication movies — Be alive of these facts most boob cancer! — is that they artefact easily into PSA-land. They're most trenchant when audience block that they're existence hammered by a message, but since such films' content is to intercommunicate as such fixable aggregation as possible, their stories ofttimes embellish stilted and hit discompose maintaining viewers' support of disbelief.

There are moments during Five when this happens, specially in the pants in which the characters haven't been matured rattling farther beyond their disease. And there are plentitude of cheesy moments, in the tralatitious call of made-for-TV movies. But there are also moments that represent the programme of boob cancer, though it has been told and retold, as freshly emotive.

There are whatever of these moments in Aniston's "Mia" — starring the show-stealing Patricia Clarkson and cursive by Wendy West — which uses nutriment deftly. When Pearl delivers the programme to Mia that she has defied the ratio and will be extant Stage 4 boob cancer, Mia begins to weep. Pearl asks if they are tears of happiness. Mia's answers ambivalently, weeping that she had already presented up everything, including her savings. "I drank a bottleful of Cristal every period for a month!" she says.

After the film, I asked Lindsey for her take, figuring she'd concord most the cardboardness of whatever characters and how whatever of the prizewinning pants were carried by their humor. She didn't agree. Lindsey intellection every digit of the pants worked. She said they apiece had prefabricated her cry, reminding her of a assorted characteristic of the battle, whether it was the empiric discompose that boob cancer causes the enduring or the effort of existence a female who dead becomes caretaker for a parent.

Later, I suspected that existence worn to the queer moments in Five was more individualized than critical. Because my family, specially my mother, dealt with her boob cancer finished humor. She was diagnosed in Oct 2010. When she titled to verify me, I tearfully spinous discover — after the initial damper wore soured — the humor of it existence Breast person Awareness month. With glad fatalism, she chirped, "Well, I'm sure aware!"

When my papa told her that he couldn't genuinely empathize with her loss, she said that wasn't strictly true, teasing, "You've been ball-less for years." (Lest my ascendant process me for slander, I will saucer discover that she meant this figuratively.) And at digit saucer she noted that anything added that was as junked as her breasts were at that saucer in her chronicle would sure hit been donated to Goodwill eld ago.

Five will probable advise whatever another survivors and grouping same Lindsey and me who hit been grazed by boob cancer. But that doesn't stingy the flick will distribute the communication to those who aren't already listening, or will enliven women to intend a mammogram, or—on the another hand—that it will invoke grouping soured to ease more candidature most boob cancer.

Still, let's grappling it. If Jennifer Aniston concentrated a clump of honor friends to endorse the drive of slicing bread, grouping would probable ease clear attention. And modify if the flick does lowercase more than substance purge to whatever of those who hit been near to boob cancer, that's a success in its possess right.

Katy discoverer is a communicator at TIME. Find her on Twitter at @KatySteinmetz. You crapper also move the communicating on TIME's Facebook page and on Twitter at @TIME.