Battling Illness
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    People

    Mako

    Born and raised in Japan, Mako moved to the USA after WWII. An architecture student, he got into set...

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    Movies

    The Bucket List (2007)

    Two terminally ill men (Jack Nicholson, Morgan Freeman) leave their hospital ward and set out to...

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    My Sister's Keeper (2009)

    Sara and Brian Fitzgerald's life with their young son and their two-year-old daughter, Kate, is...

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    Movies

    Man on the Moon (1999)

    Milos Forman's film spotlights Andy Kaufman's (Jim Carrey) unusual performance style, his becoming...

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    Duet For One (1986)

    Julie Andrews delivers a virtuoso dramatic performance in Duet for One. Based on a play by Tom...

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    Movies

    Last Holiday (2006)

    Upon learning of a terminal illness, a shy woman (Queen Latifah) decides to sell off all her...

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    Movies

    Life As A House (2001)

    A terminally ill man (Kevin Kline) looks to his ex-wife (Kristin Scott Thomas) and estranged son...

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    Movies

    Silent Hill (2006)

    A woman (Radha Mitchell) searches for her missing daughter in a town that has been enveloped in a...

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    The Shootist (1976)

    People pester an old, dying gunfighter (John Wayne) rooming with a widow (Lauren Bacall) in 1901...

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    The TV Set (2007)

    A network picks up Mike Klein's (David Duchovny) pilot for a TV series, and now he must navigate...

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    Dark Victory (1939)

    An heiress (Bette Davis) with only months to live embarks on a social whirl, then marries her doctor...

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    Movies

    American Splendor (2003)

    Fiction and reality blend in this portrait of Cleveland-based writer Harvey Pekar, author of the...

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    Movies

    Away From Her (2007)

    A man (Gordon Pinsent) becomes confused and angry when his wife (Julie Christie), an Alzheimer's...

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    Off the Black (2006)

    A paternal bond slowly forms between a dying umpire (Nick Nolte) and the young ballplayer (Trevor...

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    One True Thing (1998)

    At her father's (William Hurt) request, a reluctant woman (Renée Zellweger) postpones her career to...

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    My Life (1993)

    A man (Michael Keaton) and his wife (Nicole Kidman) confront his terminal cancer as he videotapes...

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    Movies

    Bang the Drum Slowly (1973)

    A top major-league pitcher (Michael Moriarty) devotes himself to a simple-minded catcher (Robert De...

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    Movies

    Marvin's Room (1996)

    A Florida leukemia patient (Diane Keaton) needs her sister's (Meryl Streep) bone marrow, but first...

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    Movies

    Lorenzo's Oil (1992)

    Intellectual parents (Nick Nolte, Susan Sarandon) seek and find a way to save their son from a rare...

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    Movies

    A Lion in the House (2006)

    Filmmakers Steven Bognar and Julia Reichert examine the plight of five children who have cancer.

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    Movies

    Stepmom (1998)

    A New York fashion photographer (Julia Roberts) contends with her boyfriend's (Ed Harris) children...

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    Movies

    Hilary and Jackie (1998)

    British cellist Jacqueline Du Pre (Emily Watson) and her sister, flutist Hilary (Rachel Griffiths),...

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    Movies

    Bittersweet Place

    The patriarch (Seymour Cassel) of a New York family deals with two grown daughters who still live at...

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    People

    Chris Stein

    Chris Stein worked in Music Production on movies such as Anger Management and Mean Girls and TV...

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    Movies

    Safe (1995)

    Environmental illness sends a California wife (Julianne Moore) to a New Age guru's (Peter Friedman)...

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    Movies

    The Law of Enclosures

    Beatrice and Henry are inexplicably and impossibly stuck in 1991 - stuck in the same jobs and...

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    Movies

    Unstrung Heroes (1995)

    A 12-year-old striving to cope with the impending death of his mother (Andie MacDowell) must leave...

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    Movies

    The Last Place on Earth (2002)

    A workaholic (Dana Ashbrook) falls in love with a terminally ill woman while traveling to witness...

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    Haut les coeurs!

    A pregnant woman is distressed to learn that she has been diagnosed with breast cancer and must...

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    Movies

    Zycie Jako Smiertelna Choroba Przenoszona Droga Plciowa

    Doctor Tomasz Berg is confronted with demons he never wanted to face when he's diagnosed with a...