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TITLE My Last Love (1999) (TV Film)

ALT__TITLE             To Live For

DISABILITY Cancer Terminal illness

COUNTRY USA

LENGTH ?

GENRE Drama

DIRECTOR ?

CAST Nancy Travis

Viveka Davis

Scott Bairstow

Jamie Renee Smith

NOTES A pretty single mum and hot shot lawyer who drives a convertible BMW 2 discovers she's terminally ill with cancer. She's just bought a great home on the beach in California which makes it convenient for contemplative walks and she moves there from Chicago. On the beach she meets another walker who tries to chat her up and she does has a romance with a young stud.
It's unclear why she gives up work when her illness doesn't appear to inhibit her in any way. Though later she has headaches and lower back pain and has chemo-radiation.
She tells her lover that she has cancer (what kind?) and he walks out but comes back.
She begins to weaken and collapses in store. Cancer has spread to brain. She becomes maudlin and there's lots of talking. She want her love ,Micheal, to adopt her daughter. Her parents who were going to look after the daughter and are against this. And then she dies.

 


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