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Dying Young

Dying Young

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Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Great,But Make It On Dvd
Review: Please make it on dvd it deserves to make it on a dvd come on guys for what you are waiting! it's a nice movie with love and romance but it will break your heart,both stars are great they did perfect job in this movie.Come on give it a shot and watch it at least you will fall in love with this movie.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Amazing
Review: The first time i ever saw this film, i came across it flipping through channels. I can honestly say that no words put together can possibly describe the sheer beauty that is this movie. No matter how much i try, i can not hold back the tears. It's an absolute classic.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: heart pounding!
Review: The story is very timely. The scenes are great. Every viewer will be touched by this story.

Rating: 3 stars
Summary: Too young, to trust in it.
Review: This is a story about a wealthy young leukemia patient, Victor's (Campbell Scott) final stage of its cancer condition the help of his surrogate nurse Hillary (Julia Roberts).

Victor intents to quit its cancer treatment in a desperate will of being strong and living life the best as he can. He falls in love with Hillary and after all he recognizes that she can compensates all his misadventures, and fulfill his hopes of the last days he can live. Oh, the sexual live of a cancer treatment patient is limited, so, don't get too optimistic about this relation. Nevertheless, sex is not all for them, as we can expect it.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: stunning
Review: This is a truly underrated, beautiful film about love. I didnt think i was the emotional, lovey dovey type until I watched this!

Rating: 1 stars
Summary: Cornball Drama at its worst
Review: This is one of those movies that guys will loathe and their wives or girlfriends will love. Well, being of the male persuasion, I thought this was one of the corniest movies ever. I'm always up to see a good tear-jerker, but here you're too busy figuring out the terribly predictable plot to get wrapped up in the GENEROUS amount of tears you'll see.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: A beautiful drama
Review: This type of film is usually the type you only see once, but not this one - I've stopped counting!

I'm not much of a romantic normally, but when someone creates something as strong as this around a fatale illness - you can't even stop me from loving it and enjoying it. On top of it, the cast is really good - I've always liked Julia Roberts and Campbell Scott - whom I hadn't seen prior to this movie is just great too. The man playing his father I had seen before however and I think some previous carachter of his had gotten me scared as a child - no feelings, a hard kind of carachter and man...anyway for all that you see of him he's good too!

Beautiful scenery and an interesting lifestory makes this film the great film that it is.

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: Heart-breaking Melodrama
Review: What got me into this movie was actually the theme "I'll Never Leave You" written by Kenny G and James Newton Howard. The beautiful yet melancholy melody delineates a heart-breaking story about a wealthy young lukemia patient, Victor's (Campbell Scott) final stage of life with a surrogate nurse Hillary (Julia Roberts).

Recognized of his soon demise, Victor makes the most out of limited lifetime through teaching art and making himself happy. Woven with nurse Hillary, Victor realizes being strong and living life to the full is what really matters. The movie is filled with touching life struggle battling the disease, and also bittersweet conversations among the tormented couple.

Scenes and music are both incredible and well-matched. It will touch your soul and prompt you re-evaluate your own life.

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: Heart-breaking Melodrama
Review: What got me into this movie was actually the theme "I'll Never Leave You" written by Kenny G and James Newton Howard. The beautiful yet melancholy melody delineates a heart-breaking story about a wealthy young lukemia patient, Victor's (Campbell Scott) final stage of life with a surrogate nurse Hillary (Julia Roberts).

Recognized of his soon demise, Victor makes the most out of limited lifetime through teaching art and making himself happy. Woven with nurse Hillary, Victor realizes being strong and living life to the full is what really matters. The movie is filled with touching life struggle battling the disease, and also bittersweet conversations among the tormented couple.

Scenes and music are both incredible and well-matched. It will touch your soul and prompt you re-evaluate your own life.

Rating: 2 stars
Summary: Dying Youmg - ** Stars
Review: `Dying Young" is a long, slow slog of a movie, up to its knees in drippy self-pity as it marches wearily toward its inevitable ending. And when I describe the ending as inevitable, by that I do not mean that the hero of "Dying Young" actually dies young. The movie doesn't have that much imagination.

Julia Roberts stars as Hilary, a young woman from Oakland, Calif., who answers a classified ad with a Nob Hill address in San Francisco. The ads calls for a "young and attractive" woman with "some" nursing experience, and as the young and attractive woman trudges up Nob Hill in her red miniskirt, we get the feeling that two days as a candy striper might be enough experience.

We are correct. Roberts is hired by young Victor Geddes (Campbell Scott), who has been battling leukemia half of his life and needs someone to help him get through his next course in chemotherapy. Roberts takes the job, and as her patient vomits and shivers and writhes in pain, she helps the best she can. At first she fears she's not equal to the task, but she is, of course, and eventually the two slip away and rent a cottage in northern California, where they fall in love while he enjoys a remission.

Their love is not, however, a great romantic saga; "Love Story" was a substantially better version of the same story. One of the problems is that Victor is a drip: a whiny, manipulative martyr with the kind of flat, husky voice I always associate with Henry the serial killer. Hilary is also a little out of focus. As played by Roberts, she knows all the words but we never hear the music. Even the big dramatic moments are curiously muted, and people are forever disappearing into shadows (one of Victor's exits looks stolen directly from "The Phantom of the Opera").

If the plot is predictable, maybe it's because "Dying Young" is a virtual rewrite of the formula of "Pretty Woman," Roberts' entertaining 1990 movie. Once again we have the rich, knowledgeable man taking the uneducated working-class girl under his arm, wining and dining her, giving her educational lectures, using his money to buy her love. Only the disease has changed, with leukemia substituting for soul sickness. The two movies have similar no-sex agreements, which are similarly broken, and moments in which the rich, smart man realizes he can learn something about himself from this simple woman of the people.

There is an agonizingly awkward subplot this time, involving Vincent D'Onofrio as a friendly local handyman. Will Roberts choose him instead of remaining loyal to her dying lover? I gather that in one early version of the movie she actually did, but audiences hated her for it, and so we get the current ending, with lachrymose pledges of eternal love followed, so help me, by a new day a-dawning.

That sunrise aside, the whole movie seems under a pall. Disease and death need not be this funereal. Remember "Longtime Companion," with its wonderful scenes of loyalty and courage? "Dying Young" doesn't really feel any of its emotions - it's a cynically constructed tearjerker that's so artificial and contrived I felt embarrassed watching it.

It's also sloppy filmmaking. Elements are thrown in for effect but never thought through. Exactly how does the figure of the father change so dramatically, from indifference to concern, in his two big scenes? What is the function of the butler in the story? Do Roberts and D'Onofrio feel anything at all for one another? What about that neighbor woman who turns up her nose at the young couple? Was she included for any other purpose than to be shocked, later, when Victor runs naked into the dawn? Her reaction is so predictable that as he was running I was counting the seconds until she appeared.

Many of these flaws could be overlooked if the central characters were more likable ("Pretty Woman" had gaping holes in it, but so what?). What bothered me most of all was the performance by Campbell Scott, who simply never generated enough warmth and sympathy to explain why Julia Roberts would want to love him. And Roberts herself, perhaps falling under the same depressing shroud, lacks the heart and bouncy humor that were so important to "Pretty Woman." Dying young is one thing. These characters seem to be dying together.


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