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Dying Young
Drama, Romance
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.
View on IMDbAppeals to viewers who want an earnest tearjerker about intimate caregiving, doomed romance, and finding meaning in limited time.
- Tone
- melancholic, romantic, sentimental
- Payoff
- heartbreak, catharsis
- Pacing
- steady
- Intensity
- moderate
- Structure
- linear
- Themes
- love, mortality, caregiving, class difference, emotional renewal
- Setting
- contemporary, affluent private residence