I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking ForDying Young
Score: 8,0
When I was a kid it used to show on TV an ad about this movie’s VHS release. My mom was dying to watch it and always asked us to rent it too when my dad rent us movies. By that time we, me and my brother, just watched thins like Snoopy, the Smurfs, the Snorks, Garfield, Looney Tunes, Speedy Gonzalez, and the ones that traumatized me, I cried rivers and I would never watch again: The Little Match Girl and one of Monica’s Gang adventures (A Estrelinha Mágica). Anyway, we couldn’t find the movie in the beginning. It was the first romance Julia Roberts did after Pretty Woman, so it was always rented. We found it after a while and I watched with her. But I couldn’t understand it. I was too young for that…
The story is the same old thing. They fall in love, but one of them is terribly sick. He is, actually. Leukemia. Julia was in that The Little Mermaid Ariel-Jessica Rabbit period, with that huge super-totally-completely fake red hair. She plays Hillary, a 23 year-old who looks like 35, and she catches her boyfriend cheating. She dumps the asshole and returns to her mother’s place, played by Ellen Burstyn, who was also mother from the possessed girl from The Exorcist.
But her mother drives her crazy and she must get the hell out of there. So she answers an ad in the paper to be Campbell Scott’s nurse. I never got how Campbell never became one of the big heartthrobs in Hollywood. He is better actor than most of the actors his age and prettier too. First, she is kicked out by his father, but then Campbell calls her back. The rest we all know what happens just by looking at the poster.
It was interesting to watch it because the story is between Oakland, San Francisco and some other town. Some takes were done close from where I live, once Campbell’s mansion is really close. It’s funny too see how things changed like the street lamps. I guess all the electric wires now are underground. The mayonnaise hair treatment was totally new to me. I’ve seen people using some plants, eggs, chocolate and other things, but mayonnaise was the first time.
This a classic non-classic movie. It has all the ingredients for success but it didn’t happen. James Newton Howard’s romantic score plays the whole movie, just like every other romance like The Way We Were, My Heart Will Go On, I Have Nothing, Endless Love and so on. James’s orchestral version is really pretty and deserved an Academy Award in my opinion, but it rose to success in Kenny G’s saxophone version. Kenny wasn’t so disgusting that time but then he became official soundtrack for weddings, radio love shows, girly events and all sort of parties. The soundtrack is really famous until now, but the movie not so much…
Julia is still the same big star always doing the same roles. This one is a drama reprise from her Pretty Woman’s character. The poor girl who gets the rich guy, can’t eat fancy food in classy restaurant and loves a wild party. Director Joel Schumacher had even tasted success before with St. Elmo’s Fire (that I adore) and The Lost Boys, and he continued directing successful movies after that. But he did Batman and Robin, the one with the nipples, and the terrible version of The Phantom of The Opera in 2004.
Maybe it doesn’t have place in the Sun because its ending is not that tearful as the other romances, except for romantic comedies that always have happy endings. Perhaps the title doesn’t help either. The original title “Dying Young” is terrible. Creepy. The Brazilian version is “All For Love”. Totally corny. So cliché. But even so I can’t think of any appropriate elegant and attractive title to give to the picture. But that’s fine. Corny title, Julia Roberts disguised as The Little Mermaid, Kenny G in the soundtrack, it’s all working out together.
The story is the same old thing. They fall in love, but one of them is terribly sick. He is, actually. Leukemia. Julia was in that The Little Mermaid Ariel-Jessica Rabbit period, with that huge super-totally-completely fake red hair. She plays Hillary, a 23 year-old who looks like 35, and she catches her boyfriend cheating. She dumps the asshole and returns to her mother’s place, played by Ellen Burstyn, who was also mother from the possessed girl from The Exorcist.
But her mother drives her crazy and she must get the hell out of there. So she answers an ad in the paper to be Campbell Scott’s nurse. I never got how Campbell never became one of the big heartthrobs in Hollywood. He is better actor than most of the actors his age and prettier too. First, she is kicked out by his father, but then Campbell calls her back. The rest we all know what happens just by looking at the poster.
It was interesting to watch it because the story is between Oakland, San Francisco and some other town. Some takes were done close from where I live, once Campbell’s mansion is really close. It’s funny too see how things changed like the street lamps. I guess all the electric wires now are underground. The mayonnaise hair treatment was totally new to me. I’ve seen people using some plants, eggs, chocolate and other things, but mayonnaise was the first time.
This a classic non-classic movie. It has all the ingredients for success but it didn’t happen. James Newton Howard’s romantic score plays the whole movie, just like every other romance like The Way We Were, My Heart Will Go On, I Have Nothing, Endless Love and so on. James’s orchestral version is really pretty and deserved an Academy Award in my opinion, but it rose to success in Kenny G’s saxophone version. Kenny wasn’t so disgusting that time but then he became official soundtrack for weddings, radio love shows, girly events and all sort of parties. The soundtrack is really famous until now, but the movie not so much…
Julia is still the same big star always doing the same roles. This one is a drama reprise from her Pretty Woman’s character. The poor girl who gets the rich guy, can’t eat fancy food in classy restaurant and loves a wild party. Director Joel Schumacher had even tasted success before with St. Elmo’s Fire (that I adore) and The Lost Boys, and he continued directing successful movies after that. But he did Batman and Robin, the one with the nipples, and the terrible version of The Phantom of The Opera in 2004.
Maybe it doesn’t have place in the Sun because its ending is not that tearful as the other romances, except for romantic comedies that always have happy endings. Perhaps the title doesn’t help either. The original title “Dying Young” is terrible. Creepy. The Brazilian version is “All For Love”. Totally corny. So cliché. But even so I can’t think of any appropriate elegant and attractive title to give to the picture. But that’s fine. Corny title, Julia Roberts disguised as The Little Mermaid, Kenny G in the soundtrack, it’s all working out together.
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