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List Price: $9.99 Our Price: $8.99 You Save: $1 Features • Color • Dolby • DVD-Video • Full Screen • NTSC In Theaters : 21 April, 1995 DVD Release : 23 November, 2004 |
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The Cure description This heartfelt drama tells us it's an AIDS movie that's not about AIDS. When this film keeps its promise (roughly the first three-quarters), it's a winner, a film about a truly notable friendship between two 11-year-old boys. Diagnosed with AIDS from a blood transfusion, Dexter (Joseph Mazzello) has gratefully bypassed most of Kübler-Ross's stages of death. He is, however, an outcast among his peers until Erik (Brad Renfro) comes along and finds him quite normal. Their bond deepens as they look for a cure for the disease using odd forms of scientific theory. Part educational text, part Mark Twain adventure, part tearjerker, the movie relies on something not found in movies these days: a love affair of male friendship. At its center are two of the best pre-actors around. Mazzello (Jurassic Park) has a professional presence on screen. The wild card is Renfro in only his second role (the other was The Client). As the outgoing, Huck Finn-ish boy, he has impressive physical abilities that communicate a naturalness on screen. The film's sappy hospital scenes bog down the picture tremendously, but they do lead to two special scenes that end the movie. The Cure is an assured directorial debut by TV actor Peter Horton (thirtysomething). An interesting note: single mothers raise both kids, a fact never lingered on--refreshingly so--in the script written by Robert Kuhn. --Doug Thomas |
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| ♥♥♥♥♥ | An 80's Treasure |
| The main characters in this film are disillusioned with goodness in this world and they find it in one another. It makes a statement against social prejudice, that it is excactly that, prejudice, and that they (the main characters) would have sacrificed a meaningful friendship and personal development had they give in. Another theme in this movie is about not being resigned to life and living even in the face of death. The downside to this release is that the disc is in 4:3 aspect ratio and some of the breathtaking scenery that the film was captured in does not shine through, especially in the world of HD today. The story does shine through however and it captures some of the fears of its day about AIDS. I like the hope this movie holds to, of people in each other. I give it 5 Stars! | |
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