‘Dying Young’ Suffers From Terminal Movie-itis
As a survivor of leukemia, I was curious to see how “Dying Young” would tell its story. After 30 minutes of watching vomiting and screaming, I could take no more and I actually walked out of a Julia Roberts movie!
The filmmakers exceeded themselves by showing a leukemia patient having treatment not given to leukemia patients, and they may well have mentally destroyed someone who has just been diagnosed with leukemia.
Most wealthy patients get treatments in their doctor’s office, not a run-down clinic as shown in the movie. Only when their leukemic cells are multiplying out of control are they admitted into the hospital, and then for periods of several weeks.
Everything was wrong with the first 30 minutes of “Dying Young”--except Julia Robert’s legs.
HARVEY ERLICH
Culver City
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