Dying Young (1991)
Directed by Joel Schumacher
After she discovers that her boyfriend has betrayed her, Hilary O'Neil is looking for a new start and a new job. She begins to work as a private nurse for a young man suffering from blood cancer. Slowly, they fall in love, but they always know their love cannot last because he is destined to die.
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Enter Lou as Will’s latest caregiver, and here come the plot references to “My Fair Lady,” “Educating Rita,” “The Bucket List,” “Pretty Woman” (Lou even wears a red dress to a musical performance, ala Julia Roberts) and even “Dying Young” (in which Ms. Roberts played a caregiver to a wealthy patient played by Campbell Scott).
This story of the relationship between a quadriplegic man and his caregiver is hardly the unvarnished version — it’s got less in common with “The Sea Inside” than with Julia Roberts’s “Dying Young.”
"Dying Young" is sort of "Love Story" by way of "Pretty Woman": Poor girl from the uneducated side of the tracks meets rich, dying young man who hires her to be his companion.
The storyline for this “Love Story” knockoff may be as insubstantial as, well, “Love Story,” but Roberts (with considerable help from co-star Campbell Scott) has the unstoppable watchability to involve us in it not only against our will but often against our better judgment as well.
Joel Schumacher's lamentable tear-jerker is a crass crossbreed of Love Story and Pretty Woman , and leaves one wishing that the terminally sick rich lad at the centre of this interminable nonsense had died even younger (or at least before the cameras arrived).
Vincent's leukemia is nothing like the mysterious disease that consumed Ali MacGraw in "Love Story" and left her corpse looking as immaculate as Snow White in her coffin.