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Cancer Major 
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TITLE |
Love
Is Strange (1998) (TV Film) |
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DIRECTOR |
Annette
Haywood-Carter
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NOTES |
Kate
Nelligan plays a judge who has been keeping it a secret she has
breast cancer. Treatment has got nowhere. Then she is told
that a new treatment in Texas might do the trick. |
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Though her
motto (and possible epitaph) is "I'm not going to |
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die. Disease
is a state of the mind." |
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She commutes
to Texas (I can't remember where she lives) |
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but her
condition can no longer be hidden. She misses out on |
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promotion.
She finishes with her boyfriend and succumbs to |
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her
ex-husband who is being really helpful. Their son who |
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hates his
father eventually bonds with him. |
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While she
has been wearing a wig to disguise the treatment |
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(she should
have been an English judge) she discards it with |
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an air of
accepting her fate. Because the new treatment |
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doesn't
work. She is in hospital about to die when her ex and |
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her son take
her outside to expire. |
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Nothing
special about this film though I like Nelligan, and |
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nothing
particularly bad except the usual made for TV |
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approach.
Further notes: Competent but dull the film is more concerned with
family and friends than medical details. She gets back with her
estranged husband and dies peacefully. |
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Notes
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