Decision out of love
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Decision out of love |
| Original title | Dying Young |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 1991 |
| length | 114 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Joel Schumacher |
| script | Richard Friedenberg |
| production | Sally Field |
| music | James Newton Howard |
| camera | Juan Ruiz Anchía |
| cut |
Robert Brown Jim Prior |
| occupation | |
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Decision out of love (Original title: Dying Young ) is an American drama from 1991 . The plot is based on a novel by Marti Leimbach .
The film was considered to be very successful with around 1 million moviegoers in Germany , while its financial success in the USA was rated as rather modest. Some American media openly asked questions about a crisis in Julia Roberts' career .
action
Hilary O'Neil ( Julia Roberts ), who comes from a tight financial situation, is hired to care for the rich, cancer-stricken young man Victor Gaddes ( Campbell Scott ). She moves into a granny flat in Victor's villa in an upscale neighborhood of San Francisco . At first she is often overwhelmed with the job, in public libraries she teaches herself about the disease.
Hilary becomes a friend and companion of Victor, whose father is away on business most of the time. The two rent a holiday home and become lovers there. Suddenly, Victor's condition worsens drastically, which he tries to hide from Hilary at first, but fails to succeed. She discovers Victor's empty syringes for pain relief and confronts him with lying to her because he had previously claimed that he did not need such medication.
Victor admits to having stopped chemotherapy early in order to be able to live with her alone. Hilary, realizing that everything she experienced at the vacation home was based on a lie (including her love for Victor), bursts into tears and explains to him that they have to go back immediately because she cannot look how he dies in front of her eyes. Then she calls Victor's father and asks him to pick up his son, which he does.
Victor asks his father to be allowed to go to a Christmas party before their departure, which he assures him, to which he and Hilary have been invited by a friend. Mr. Gaddes allows him.
At the party, Victor has to watch how Hilary lies in the arms of said friend, which breaks his heart. He drives back to the holiday home and packs his things to secretly disappear, where he is caught by Hilary. She begs him not to give up yet and at the same time promises to accompany him to the bitter end, because she loves him. Victor agrees.
The next morning Hilary and Victor drive back to the clinic. Whether Victor will get well or die remains to be seen.
Reviews
Roger Ebert called the film in the Chicago Sun-Times of 21 June 1991 as a long slog ( long, slow slog of a movie ). He criticized the portrayal of Campbell Scott, which would not arouse enough sympathy of the audience, as well as that of Julia Roberts, which Ebert described as less humorous than in the movie Pretty Woman .
"Cynical seeming stirring piece, which also leaves a few wishes open in the narrative style and at no time tries to do justice to the topic."
Awards
Julia Roberts and Campbell Scott have for the film award MTV Movie Award nomination.
literature
- Lars Penning: Julia Roberts. Bertz, Berlin 2003, ISBN 3-929470-36-5 , pp. 51-56, 143
- James Spada: Julia Roberts. The biography Hoffmann and Campe, Hamburg 2004, ISBN 3-455-09436-8 , pp. 198-201
- Meinolf Zurhorst : Julia Roberts. "Pretty Woman". 3. Edition. Heyne, Munich 1999, ISBN 3-453-05757-0 , pp. 111–124, 185–187 (Heyne film library volume 168)
Web links
- Dying in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Dying atRotten Tomatoes(English)
- Fox.de: "Decision made out of love"
Individual evidence
- ↑ Decision out of love. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed December 31, 2016 .