Dying Young movie storyline. Hilary O’Neil (Julia Roberts) is a pretty, outgoing yet cautious young woman who has had little luck in work or love. After recently parting ways with her boyfriend when she caught him cheating, Hilary finds herself living with her eccentric mother (Ellen Burstyn).
One day, Hilary answers an ad in a newspaper for a nurse only to find herself being escorted out before the interview starts. Victor Geddes (Campbell Scott) is a well-educated, rich, and shy 28-year-old. As the film progresses, Victor’s health worsens progressively, due to leukemia. Despite his father’s protests, Victor hires Hilary to be his live-in caretaker while he undergoes a traumatic course of chemotherapy. Hillary becomes insecure of her ability to care for Victor after her first exposure to the side effects of his chemotherapy treatment. She studies about leukemia and stocks healthier food in the kitchen.
He is “finished” with his chemotherapy and suggests they take a vacation to the coast. They rent a house and she begins to feel that she’s no longer needed to care for him. They fall in love and continue living at the coast. He’s hiding his use of morphine to kill the pain. During dinner with one of the friends they made there Victor starts acting aggressively and irrationally. Victor collapses and is helped to bed. She searches the garbage and discovers his used syringes. She confronts him and he admits he wasn’t finished with his chemotherapy. He explains that he wants quality in his life and she says that he’s been lying to her.
Dying Young is a 1991 American romance film, directed by Joel Schumacher. It is based on a novel of the same name by Marti Leimbach, and stars Julia Roberts and Campbell Scott with Vincent D’Onofrio, Colleen Dewhurst, David Selby, and Ellen Burstyn.[2] The original music score was composed by James Newton Howard,[2] with the main song “Theme from Dying Young” performed by American saxophonist Kenny G.
Dying Young (1991)
Directed by: Joel Schumacher
Starring: Julia Roberts, Campbell Scott, Vincent D’Onofrio, Colleen Dewhurst, David Selby, Ellen Burstyn, Dion Anderson, George Martin, Behrooz Afrakhan, Michael Halton
Screenplay by:Marti Leimbach, Richard Friedenberg
Cinematography by: Juan Ruiz Anchía
Film Editing by: Robert Brown, Jim Prior
Costume Design by: Susan Becker
Set Decoration by: Cricket Rowland
Art Direction by: Guy J. Comtois, Richard L. Johnson
Music by: James Newton Howard
Distributed by: 20th Century Fox
Release Date: June 21, 1991
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