TV Review: Crazy, Sexy Cancer on TLC

She's hot. She's sexy. She's funny. And she's got incurable cancer. What's a girl to do? Wax her eyebrows and make a documentary. And what a documentary it is, full of great cinematography, nifty graphics and perfect soundtrack transitions.

Kris Carr's "Crazy Sexy Cancer" is the story of a young actress/photographer who's learned that she has 24 cancerous tumors in her body that can't be cured. This is upsetting for her because it directly affects her lifestyle of occasional smokes, beers, champagne, fun eating and daily breakfast of coffee and a Power Bar.

Although incurable, her cancer has slow growth and can't be treated with radiation therapy or chemotherapy. But rather than wait to die, Carr decides to film a documentary of the time she spends seeking out the best treatments and hopefully find the roots of the disease. "Cancer is now my new job."

Carr's quest in "Crazy Sexy Cancer" takes her to various places across the country as she meets healers and dieticians. She sees acupuncturists, massage therapists, and a clown that's convinced you can laugh your chakra into healing. "I feel like Alice in Cancer-land", Carr muses as she meets people in a Healing convention.

Her vulnerabilities are also on display as she muses about finding someone who would want to commit to her knowing that she may die one day. Carr bawls when she learns that at one point a lot of her work hasn't made a measurable difference. And, ironically, you can laugh at her as she tears up about the numerous fasting shakes of mysterious green she sucks down for a month straight. "You know at some point in the day that you're going to want a muffin and you'll have it and enjoy it. I just want to do that," she says, between tears and a teasing soundtrack. "Crazy Sexy Cancer" doesn't spare any dark humor.

Along for the ride are Carr's parents, a cameraman and some newfound friends like Janet, a concert promoter that decided to fight the disease by holding "F!#$% Cancer" benefit concerts and sporting caps with the same, expletive-touched phrase. Janet seems to really inspire Carr to keep from dwelling in the sadness but fight the madness of cancer. Carr also visits with two sisters, one a magazine editor that wrote a book on her battles with cancer and another who was diagnosed with the disease while seven months pregnant.

Carr often juggles between being the interviewer and taping emotional confessions during "Crazy Sexy Cancer". You can see her smiling and overwhelmingly determined not to let cancer take control of her life; she tries trapeze jumping and revamps her diet to almost nothing but strange vegetables found in the darkest corners of Whole Foods. She tosses out the coffee and notes the smokers in front of the cancer hospital.

"Crazy Sexy Cancer" is another one of those great, witty pieces that can take you through the emotional rollercoaster but leaves you mostly on the happy side of the tracks. This is definitely a lesson in how not to let life beat you down but to face death in the eye and say "F!#$% cancer". This is definitely entertaining and a documentary that won't be forgotten once you view it. Check your local TLC listings for air times.