I Love You (2007): A twist on the genre: Holly’s (Hilary Swank) husband Gerry (Gerard Butler) dies from a brain tumor at the beginning of the film - but he still manages to teach her a lesson via a series of posthumous letters (all ending with “P.S. This is one walk you can definitely forget.ġ5. They fall in love, and after she kicks the bucket Landon enrolls in medical school in hopes of curing cancer.
SAD CANCER MOVIES ON NETFLIX MOVIE
In the movie adaptation, Mandy Moore plays Jamie, a minister’s daughter secretly suffering from leukemia who helps troubled popular kid Landon (Shane West) learn his lines for the school play. A Walk to Remember (2002): Leave it to Nicholas Sparks to write a novel about the death of a teen that makes your eyes roll instead of water. Spoiler: She picks Klein and drops dead.ġ6. Here on Earth (2000): Remember when Chris Klein, Josh Hartnett, and Leelee Sobieski were supposed to be the next generation of Hollywood royalty? That didn’t work out, and neither did this teen weeper starring Sobieski as a girl who is diagnosed with bone cancer and caught in a love triangle between the boy she’s always liked (Hartnett) and the rich jock she just met (Klein).
Astonishingly, that “circle of life” ending is one of the least hoary tropes in this movie.ġ7. She also falls in love with her doctor (Gael García Bernal) and expires just as her best friend is giving birth. A Little Bit of Heaven (2011): Kate Hudson has made some bad choices in her film career, but few worse than this stinker in which she plays a cancer patient who is granted three wishes by God (Whoopi Goldberg). In memory of all the fictional characters that gave their lives so that their sweethearts could lead more meaningful ones, here is a ranking of 18 terminal romances.ġ8. But from Love Story to Sweet November to A Walk to Remember to The Fault in Our Stars, Hollywood can’t seem to quit making terminal romance movies - and who knows, maybe there’s even one in theaters right now. When executed poorly - which they usually are! - these films can verge on distasteful, exploiting real-life illnesses for cheap tears. You’ve seen this movie before, probably a few times: Two characters fall in love even though one suffers from a terrible disease or affliction that will kill him or her (usually her) before credits roll, but not before she or he imparts important life lessons to the surviving lover.
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