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can someone please give me a summary of this movie?
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Thanks for that. I remember seeing the commercials for this movie and being hopelessly confused, because the commercials didn't tell us a damn thing about the storyline. It wasn't enough to make me want to watch the film; it was like drug commercials that don't tell you what the drug actually does. The lack of information was annoying as hell.
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I agree. I started watching the movie not knowing what it was about and thinking it was another mystery illness movie of the week show. I didn't know what it was about or where it was going so I turned it off. If I knew more about it I would have watched.
FYI it was on tv Yesterday ( re-aired I guess)
i COMPLETELY agree with you there. i watched it yesterday as well. the movie was okaaaay, because i'm secretly addicted to those "mystery illness movies of the week"... but RIGHT before i was going to turn it off, i came here to look up the summary. because i had no idea what the point was, frankly. the previews made me believe that there was this close family, and a mother who loves her kids with all her heart. and then she gets some illness and i assumed she had to face dying and leaving her kids behind. NOPE! NOT AT ALL. that's why i was confused when she obviously had overcome her illness yet the movie was still not over... so obviously it wasn't your typical lifetime movie, but i wasn't sure of the point, then.
so if it weren't for me looking up the preview at that point and then realizing her daughter would get killed at columbine high... i was TOTALLY about to turn it off. i really think they should have made it flow together a bit better. i loved the artistic approach, having the radio say it was april 20th, then panning out when she gets out of the car at school to show that she went to columbine... but since they ended the movie as a tribute to lauren, i think the two ordeals (brain tumor and lauren's death) should have transitioned a bit better to keep the viewers hooked. i mean when you think about it, and how it's TRUE... that's a pretty amazing story. it just turned out to be quite a heavy blow to put in a 2 hour (with commercial breaks) tv movie.
i realize that that's the way REAL LIFE goes--- you think OH MY GOD, AM I GOING TO DIE?! and you have to relearn everything, and eventually your life goes back to "normal" IF you have the willpower to keep going... and i realize that at the time, the school shooting was obviously a total shock, lauren and her family wouldn't have had a CLUE that it would happen.... so that's why it was so random and casually put together. but still, this was a movie and i think it should have focused more on relationships as a whole and made us have a bit more sympathy for lauren and her mother's relationship: both during her mother's operations and up until the morning of lauren's death. in any case, i still did cry quite a bit, and went on to research lauren and her family afterward (i just... do those things)... but yeah.
Dawn anna was right in movie that lauren would have love her niece if lauren hadn't
been murder on april 20 1999 couple of days after my birthday.
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I agree. I think it should have just been inspired by a true life story as opposed to based on one, with the daughter's death occuring at the same time she was undergoing treatments. It could have been more symbolic, more emotionally true and less literally true, if you know what I mean. As it was, it didn't feel like the movie was about much of anything. It seemed more like a timeline of events than a story. And it felt wrong to just drop in the Columbine plot at the very last minute. Even if it wasn't the main focus of the story, it deserved more than a cursory mention at the end.
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