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TITLE |
I'm
Losing You (1998) |
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NOTES |
On his
sixtieth birthday a man (Frank Langella) learns he has |
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a fatal lung
cancer. He has nodules on both lungs called (I |
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He's a
television producer of a Star Trek type show which his |
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son refuses
to act in even though he's having difficulty getting |
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work as
actor. In the mean while he sells the life insurance |
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policies of
people with AIDS. The lump sum then goes to the |
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From this
point things get a little bit confusing as we cycle |
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through a
series of scenes involving the man and his family in |
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what are
basically a number of two-handed scenes. There is |
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his
(adopted) daughter (Arquette) who becomes decidedly |
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odd when she
learns who her birth parents are and begins to |
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become
religious. The son falls in love with a woman |
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(Perkins)
who is HIV positive but she dies soon afterwards |
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Buck Henry
plays a script writer with AIDS. |
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It's a mixed
bag but Perkins is terrific. |
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From the
novel by Bruce Wagner |
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