Dying Young (1991)

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. As with most films directed by Joel Schumacher 'Dying Young' has a very sweet and romantic storyline that unfortunately doesn't use properly for some depth to it. Plus i didn't bought on any of the two leads or the storyline as a whole either and that's bad. (0/10)

Certainly not a great film, but an okay one at best. However, the wig on Julia Roberts is probably one of the worst I've ever seen in a film. And if it's not a wig- yikes!!!! I find it hard to believe not one person (Producer) watched the dailies and didn't think "gotta' deal with that fake hunk of hair on the leading lady."

Julia Roberts who used to be known as America's Sweetheart with hits such as Pretty Woman,Eat Pray And Love and the ever so good but sorta average Mirror Mirror,here she decides to tone it down a bit and star in this A Walk To Remember styled flick Dying Young with Campbell Scott.Here she plays Hilary a woman who caught her boyfriend having a steamy session with another woman and Hilary is heartbroken. She comes across an ad on a paper where she has to look after a man and she decides to take the offer. But the man's father doesn't want her to look after his son as she wasn't a doctor. But the young man named Vincent(Scott) saw her and took to her straight away and decides to hold a secret interview down in his room and she gets the job from him. Apparently Vincent was diagnosed with Leukemia 10 years ago and lost all his hair and doesn't have much time left. So Hilary decides to look after him with romance blossoming along the way. As time goes past Vincent starts to get his dark hair back and himself and Hilary go off together and spend the holidays in an old house away in the countryside. But is Vincent hiding something from Hilary and will Hilary stay by his side when his time is up?Overall this film was great. Its not the best film ever made and part of this movie is so depressing but it took me 23 years to see this film as I got the DVD triple pack of Julia Roberts which contained this movie,Mystic Pizza and Sleeping With The Enemy. If you are looking for a tearjearker or if you like me a fan of Julia Roberts then check it out.Overall its a 6 not as good as A Walk To Remember but still worth checking out.

I guess I'm just not in the main stream. How can IMDb readers give Love Story (1970) a composite grade of 6.7 and Dying Young only 5.4. Julie Roberts is much, much better than Ali MacGraw (proof of who is the better actress is that MacGraw went literally nowhere, as she deserved, after Love Story while Roberts is still a star, an Oscar winner and a respected actress). The story line of both is somewhat predictable, but Dying Young has an infinitely better script. In Dying Young the viewer truly empathizes with the characters, while in Love Story, neither character is worth knowing. Only the most sentimental will tear up in Love Story, while Dying Young bring most to tears. While this does not mean that it is a great movie, it does mean that the characters are believable and well acted and the story line is good enough to overcome its somewhat predictable premise. Curl up with a loved one and a box of tissues. If you are at all the least bit sensitive you will like Dying Young.