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Dying Young
After she discovers that her boyfriend has betrayed her, Hilary O'Neil is looking for a new start and a new job. Later Hilary becomes the caretaker of smart, well-bred Victor, who is fighting leukemia. Then her whole world suddenly changes...
7 December 1932, Detroit, Michigan, USA
3 June 1924, Montréal, Québec, Canada
June 27, 1939 in San Francisco, California, USA
28 December 1970, New York City, New York, USA
3 September 1963, Orange, New Jersey, USA
July 01, 2013
Dying Young belongs to the luminous Roberts. She is becoming one of the screen's finer actresses.
July 01, 2013
Worst of all, Dying Young is a love story about two people who don't seem to be in love with each other.
July 01, 2013
These people are like an adolescent's idea of adulthood. They're junior high schoolers without zits, emotionally arrested and unaware of it.
July 01, 2013
Joel Schumacher's lamentable tear-jerker is a crass crossbreed of Love Story and Pretty Woman.
July 01, 2013
A decidedly dubious early 1990s love story from Joel Schumacher. The Kenny G sax solos don't help either.
July 01, 2013
Donate the ticket money you would have spent to medical research, and stay home.
July 01, 2013
Yes, it is good to see how much of a difference actors can make with flimsy material, but wouldn't it be nice if they had something with more than the emotional weight of a Twinkie to work on?
July 01, 2013
This is an upsetting, moving film -- not one for the weak of stomach, mind or heart.
July 01, 2013
The onslaught-of-illness stuff is rendered not with emotion but with makeup and lighting. The actors are reduced to models in a film that tries to sell compassion by the shot.
July 01, 2013
Will someone please, please, write a part for Julia Roberts and not be happy just to look at her?
July 01, 2013
Where most contemporary directors would be looking for ways to demonstrate their superiority to the material -- dropping in campy asides or meaningless technical flourishes -- Schumacher is looking for ways to make it work.
July 01, 2013
It also lacks cuteness, which a movie of this sort needs. A film as predictable as this one is seriously in need of scenes that stand out, scenes that give the movie a little life, no pun intended.