slightlymad22 At the time of this movies release, Julie Roberts was flying high thanks to "Steel Magnolias" in 1989 and the mega hit "Pretty Woman" in 1990. Sadly dying Young misses the mark by a long way.Plot in A Paragraph: Hilary O'Neil (Julia Roberts) has little luck in work or love. After recently Leaving her boyfriend when she caught him cheating, Hilary finds herself living with her eccentric mother (Ellen Burstyn). One day, Hilary answers an ad in a newspaper for a nurse to Victor Geddes (Campbell Scott) a well-educated, rich, and shy 28 year-old who is dying due to leukemia. Despite his father's protests, Victor hires Hilary to be his live-in caretaker while he undergoes a traumatic course of chemotherapy.This movie is a dull and dreary affair that attempts to manipulate the viewers emotions at every turn. The direction is awkward, and it's easy to see why director by Joel Schumacher did not make any more movies like this. If you like Roberts, watch it once, and make up your own mind.

lisafordeay Julia Roberts who used to be known as America's Sweetheart with hits such as Pretty Woman,Eat Pray And Love and the ever so good but sorta average Mirror Mirror,here she decides to tone it down a bit and star in this A Walk To Remember styled flick Dying Young with Campbell Scott.Here she plays Hilary a woman who caught her boyfriend having a steamy session with another woman and Hilary is heartbroken. She comes across an ad on a paper where she has to look after a man and she decides to take the offer. But the man's father doesn't want her to look after his son as she wasn't a doctor. But the young man named Vincent(Scott) saw her and took to her straight away and decides to hold a secret interview down in his room and she gets the job from him. Apparently Vincent was diagnosed with Leukemia 10 years ago and lost all his hair and doesn't have much time left. So Hilary decides to look after him with romance blossoming along the way. As time goes past Vincent starts to get his dark hair back and himself and Hilary go off together and spend the holidays in an old house away in the countryside. But is Vincent hiding something from Hilary and will Hilary stay by his side when his time is up?Overall this film was great. Its not the best film ever made and part of this movie is so depressing but it took me 23 years to see this film as I got the DVD triple pack of Julia Roberts which contained this movie,Mystic Pizza and Sleeping With The Enemy. If you are looking for a tearjearker or if you like me a fan of Julia Roberts then check it out.Overall its a 6 not as good as A Walk To Remember but still worth checking out.

Armand I remember first meeting with it. and the powerful echo of this story about sickness and love and hope. than, the measure of basic emotion was lower. but this version of Love Story was a powerful seed. excellent opportunity to discover Campbell Scott and for be fascinated by Colleen Dewhurst. for feel joy of an art lesson and inspired drama about life sense. for be touch by the light of lead character face and for accept than Julia Roberts can be more than poster. more than film, it is a ball of memories. delicate, fragile, not extraordinary, maybe common. but precious. as cage for an age. as root of a nostalgic tree. it is not special but its beauty, far to be spectacular, remains touching, bitter-sweet. and, I suppose, that fact can be a kind of virtue. or only sketch of an invitation to see it.

MovieAddict2016 No, not really. Of course I'm joking. I'd rather be buried alive.To be fair, Schumacher has made some good films - "Falling Down" is great fun by any standards - but his bad far outweighs the few good projects he's worked on. His influence on a film is instantly recognizable."Dying Young" is one of Schumacher's sappy flicks, about a woman (Julia Roberts) who decides to nurse a dying man (Campbell Scott) who has blood cancer. Typical story - hatred for each other at first followed shortly by a deep romance, which ends in...well...I guess I shouldn't ruin it.The movie is hokey and artificial - it struck me as one of those Hallmark Channel specials you would see on daytime television. If not for the cast it could easily be found in such a slot.It's a curiosity simply because Schumacher fans - as in, the kind that love to hate him - may find it interesting to see him attempt a romantic weeper.