Julia Roberts, Campbell Scott, Vincent D'Onofrio

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. Slow...( read more  read more... )ly, they fall in love, but they always know their love cannot last because he is destined to die.

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Directed by: Joel Schumacher

Release Date: June 21, 1991

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DVD Release Date: February 3, 2004

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  • February 8, 2009
    Sappy. It's so sappy that it's like the sap that drips onto your car and removes the paint.
  • August 31, 2008
    Really depressing movie, but Julia and Scott did really well together.
  • June 9, 2007
    THIS WAS SO BORING! It wasn't bad at first; not great, but cute and well, average. Lots of boring analogies about art! But then he gets the luekemia back, he lies about it, she screams at him, and they break up... and then there are tears, and... thats pretty much the movie. I fa...( read more)st forwarded through the last, say, 10 minutes, and I doubt I missed anything substantial.

    Too much swearing for my tastes, too, and then on the other end of the spectrum, you can't hear what they are saying when they talk in low voices. Makes for a movie where you hear every cuss word clearly, then have to crank it up high to try (and still not succeed) hear what they just said!

    Btw, I only watched this coz a co-worker loaned it to me.

    After babysitting my 5 year old brother all day, I think I'd rather rewatch him play Burnout Revenge and crash every 7 seconds than watch this again. At least Burnout Revenge has good music.
  • July 28, 2009
    Nothing groundbreaking but good.
  • May 28, 2008
    Sad.
  • November 10, 2009
    another chick flick v good
  • October 14, 2009
    Great narrative for a difficult but romantic; heart-breaking but simultaneously heart-warming relationship. Kenny G's touching music score.
  • September 3, 2009
    Roberts and Scott have great chemistry. Moving.
  • August 30, 2009
    I think this movie was the worst of all the Julia Roberst pile of movies.
    I also did not think the actor was that great.
    Story was good but it lost sparkle when they had no chemistry.
  • August 26, 2009
    While it got better at the end, there was enough sap to brew a fine batch of maple syrup. Julia Roberts is not a good actress; and even less so toward the beginning of her career. And the 80's feel (not in a good way) was made even worse by the awful Kenny G sax solos.

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