It's kind of ironic that when the movie was made, Jack Lemmon was actually dying of cancer.
shareWow, I didn't know that! That really does make it all the more moving a film. I was just thinking that seeing Tuesdays with Morrie, has made me realise that Jack Lemmon is one of my favourite actors.
J.Harris
I think it's very brave of an actor to face a film like this, I was thinking with him being older it must have brought a lot home, but the fact that he was actually ill, wow, wanting to give something to the world, do his art at that time, total respect to him. It made me really sad that he was dead, watching the film, I felt it for him and Morrie but my Grandpa mostly.
has anyone seen
The Five People You Meet in Heaven
it made me upset when morrie died, it is truly one of the most excellent movies i have ever seen.
r.robinson
I agree it has so much heart and it's an issue we all struggle with losing critters and people we love, when something troubles you it's good that there is a film about it, makes you feel not alone with your ponderings
shareLemmon stated befoer he died that over all the projects he took part in, this was his favorite.
"We run in while you run out."
it's the type of film an actor should be very proud of, and he was so great in it.
sharei agree; my favorite part in it is when Mitch is beating on Morrie's back, and you SO can see it on Mitch's face that he wasn't JUST beating Morrie's back ---- if he could literally take his illness in his hands and beat it to death to prevent Morrie from dying, he would - and that's what he was doing. It was poetic to me
Sorry if that sounds sappy, stupid, whatever.... Ok wait, i'm NOT sorry. Cuz guess what, as a fellow writer, I do think that was *extremely* poetic, and it's right!! I love that concept. I was cheering him on in my mind as he did that... I was like "Beat that disease! Make it go away! GET IT!"
:/ I have a lump in my throat just thinking about it now. If I could've beat up the lung cancer eating up my mom back when she was sick (before she died) I would've.... I'd have pummeled it to an unrecognizable pool of WATER just about....
:'''''(
I love you mom.... Jack Lemmon - you're a truly brave man to have done that movie while you were sick! TRULY - now THAT is poetry!
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If you're a writer, remind me not to read your works.
shareJake - i assume you speak of me when you say "if you're a writer.. etc"
erm -- my Q is WHY? what in my post made you think you wouldn't want to read my stuff??
i write as a hobby. for my own enjoyment. i love writing & creating worlds, stories, lives, etc.
it's not done for a living.
and won't be any time soon. i do NOT want other people telling me what to write, when to write, and who to write it for.. much less movie mobs destroying my work... unless it's ME directing/destroying my own work :p
my mom loved reading my stories. they're a mix of romance novel, drama movie type stuff, as well as paranormal/sci-fi because the stories center around VAMPIRES -- sooo yeah. if you like NONE of those things, then NO you wouldn't wanna read my stuff. :/
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Sorry this is digressing a bit - but please ignore him (Jake or whoever of his kind)!!!
I was moved by your post, Morbid Kitty. I was thinking of my granpa and then my own death when I was watching this movie. And I found the beating scene very moving and humorous at the same time (talking about a B Morrie gave mitch which he couldn't remember!)
It really made me cry many times. I thought it was a moving performance by Jack Lemmon as usual (to me, one of the finest actors ever lived) and I also liked Hank Azaria. I could almost see myself in him... This was a wonderful movie.
On another note - please get your lump checked out and get all the worries of'death' out of your mind. These days we fear a lot about death and horrible diseases at such young age which is often not real. It would help if you get that fear out of your mind and clear your awareness of your health. You're fine.
I am also a writer finding it hard to work up my willpower & time to write (thanks to my full time job that pays my bills). Do let me know if you write something, I would certainly give it a read! Cheers buddy!
nimesh-
I always get "a lump in my throat" & cry at stuff having to do with moms.. and it's not worries of death -- just memories & similarities that always make me cry... again & again & again... It was quite a while back when I wrote those posts, and to be honest, the christmas before last year when my dad died of breast cancer (feb. 5, 2011), I had a dream about my mom again & woke up crying like a baby. It's never dying issues - it's loss issues. The sheer pain in losing my mother & never having her there to see all that I've done, & having her to go to in my times of need, & having her to hang out with on holidays. Dreams about her will make me wake up crying every time. It's like ripping a bandaid off and ripping the scab with it to expose the cut underneath, as gushy & soft as it was the time before.
Never fun.
I've been checked at my gyno through a blood test and I do NOT have the Breast Cancer gene - so I have the same risk as any one else (lol). Thank GOD!
Thanks for the concern however,..
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Sorry!!! My bad - I read it wrong.
Nevertheless - HAPPY to know you're without those genes & alright (touchwood!). I understand the pain of loss... although I never felt it... I sometimes worry about it, and wonder how would I ever handle it. I hope you be strong with time!
The point of the movie was to make you stronger to face harsher realities of life - loss of someone you love or death itself. I'd never forget this movie because it really touched me.
Good luck to you! :)