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Author
Publisher
New Directions
Language
English
Description
"Brick, an alcoholic ex-football player, drinks his days away and resists the affections of his wife, Maggie. His reunion with his father, Big Daddy, who is dying of cancer, jogs a host of memories and revelations for both father and son." --
2) Wit
Author
Publisher
Dramatists Play Service
Pub. Date
[1999]
Language
English
Description
Winner of the 1999 Pulitzer Prize for Drama, the New York Drama Critics Circle Award, the Drama Desk Award, the Outer Critics Circle Award, the Lucille Lortel Award, and the Oppenheimer Award.
Adapted to an Emmy Award-winning television movie, directed by Mike Nichols, starring Emma Thompson.
Margaret Edson's powerfully imagined Pulitzer Prize–winning play examines what makes life worth living through her exploration
7) "The end"
Series
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
Burt Reynolds plays a man who discovers that he has six months to live and prefers to commit suicide but keeps botching the job.
8) The hero
Publisher
Lions Gate Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Formats
Description
A former Western icon re-evaluates his life, his image and more importantly his heart after a surprise diagnosis.
10) Restless
Publisher
Sony Pictures Classics
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
A terminally ill teenage girl falls for a boy who likes to attend funerals and the two of them have numerous encounters with the ghost of a Japanese kamikaze pilot from WWII.
11) Lucky life
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"A couple planning to have a child travel to the beach where they are haunted by the memory of a past trip they took with a friend who had been diagnosed with terminal cancer."--
13) The estate
Publisher
SDS
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"When two sisters attempt to win over their terminally ill aunt, hoping to inherit her wealthy estate, they discover that they have to compete with other members of their family."--
14) Beaches
Series
Publisher
Touchstone Home Video
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
Traces the friendship of two very different women who meet on a beach as young girls, through good and bad times, career and marriage changes until together they must face a final challenge as only best friends can.
Series
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
Hoping to fulfill his unusual fantasies, fast-talking Nick makes a pact with his eccentric neighbor Terry: if Terry will bankroll the adventure, Nick will help Terry realize his own particularly bizarre fantasies.
16) Parting shots
Publisher
BFS Video
Pub. Date
2004.
Language
English
Description
After learning that he has less than two months to live, wedding photographer Harry Sterndale seeks revenge on everyone who has cheated him.
17) Would you rather
Publisher
MPI Media Group
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
After the tragic death of her parents, Iris is desperate to make ends meet while caring for her terminally ill younger brother. When seemingly philanthropic aristocrat Shepard Lambrick expresses an interest in helping them with untold riches, she finds herself in a group of similarly desperate individuals all looking to make easy money. The guests soon find themselves trapped in Lambricks mansion and forced to play a sadistic game of Would You Rather,...
18) Dark victory
Publisher
Turner Entertainment Co
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
The life of a fast moving Long Island socialite skids to a stop when she discovers that she has less than a year to live.
Author
Publisher
Atheneum
Pub. Date
1980.
Language
English
Description
The play revolves around a couple, in which the wife is terminally ill with cancer. They are joined by old friends at a final cocktail party. Old animosities and competitions emerge and swirl around the heroine, who suffers with both mental and physical pain. Into this mix pops a sophisticated lady in black, accompanied by a Black male companion. They play word games with the husband, who knows these visitors are not ordinary and are certainly not...
20) Beaches
Series
Publisher
Touchstone Home Video
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
Two childhood friends are reunited in their middle age and one learns she is dying of a fatal disease.