And Sweet November (2001) condensed its love story into one short month. Autumn in New York (2000) gave its doomed heroine a heart condition instead of cancer. A Walk to Remember(2002) made the leads teenagers. The genders were reversed in 1991’s Dying Young, for instance. Since 1970’s Love Story established the box office potential of such movies, Hollywood has offered a handful of variations on that narrative. The peak of their love affair coincides with the beginning of her demise, and in her graceful dying she teaches him how to truly live. Quirky, free-spirited, and possessing a wisdom beyond her years, she initially rebuffs his advances but eventually relents. A man or boy who’s got his values all out of whack-he’s a bad boy, or a womanizer, or a workaholic, or all three-falls for a woman or girl who’s different from his usual type. Sick flicks tend to follow a narrative trajectory as predictable as the sniffles they elicit.
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