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Dying Young

She's given him something nobody else could. A reason to live.

Rating 6.7 / 10Release June 20, 1991Runtime 111 min

After she discovers that her boyfriend has betrayed her, Hilary O'Neil is looking for a new start and a new job. She begins to work as a private nurse for a young man suffering from blood cancer. Slowly, they fall in love, but they always know their love cannot last because he is destined to die.

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