Dying Young

• Julia Roberts: Hilary O'Neil
• Campbell Scott: Victor Gaddes
• Vincent D' Onofrio: Gordon
• Colleen Dewhurst: Estelle Whittier
• David Selby: Richard Geddes
• Ellen Burstyn: Mrs. O'Neil

Decision out of love (Original Title: Dying Young) is an American feature film from the year 1991 The plot is based on a novel by Marti Leimbach. .

The film was about 1 million moviegoers in Germany to be very successful in the U.S. its financial success was seen as rather modest. Some American media presented open questions after a crisis in the career of Julia Roberts.

Action

Originally from tight financial circumstances Hilary O'Neil (Julia Roberts) is hired to take care of the rich young man suffering from cancer Victor Gaddes ( Campbell Scott). She pulls into a granny flat in Victor Villa in an upmarket district of San Francisco. First, it is often overwhelmed with the job, in public libraries brings to knowledge about the disease at.

Hilary is a friend and companion Victor, whose father is most of the time on business. The two rent a holiday home and be there for couple. Suddenly Victor's condition deteriorated drastically, which he tries to conceal before Hilary initially, but does not succeed. She discovers Victor's empty syringes for pain and confronts him about it, having lied to her, as he had previously claimed to need like no medication. Victor tells her to have finished chemotherapy early in order to be able to live alone with her. Hilary, who realizes that everything she has experienced in the House, based on a lie (where she also includes her love for Victor a ), bursts into tears and tells him that they must go back immediately because they could not see as he dies before their eyes. It then calls Victor to his father and asks him to pick up his son, which he does. Victor asks his father, before their departure, which he assures him, to be allowed to go to a Christmas party, he and Hilary had been invited to by a friend. Mr. Gaddes allows it. At the party, Victor must watch as Hilary is in the arms of said friend, what breaks his heart. He drives back to the house and packed his things to disappear secretly, being caught by Hilary. She begs him not to give up and also promises to accompany him to the bitter end, because she loved him. Victor agrees. The next morning, Hilary and Victor go back to the clinic. Whether Victor gets well or dies, remains open.

Reviews

Roger Ebert called the film in the Chicago Sun - Times June 21, 1991 as a long slog (long, slow slog of a movie). He criticized the representation of Campbell Scott, who would awaken not enough sympathy of the audience, as well as those of Julia Roberts, who described Ebert as less humorous than in the movie Pretty Woman.

" Cynical seeming melodrama, which leaves open some wishes in narrative style and tries to meet at any time the subject. "

Awards

Julia Roberts and Campbell Scott were nominated for the Film Awards MTV Movie Award.