Having watched this film, it's easy to categorize it into so many other storys of the same nature, but nobody came as close to sombody dying of cancer than, Nancy Travis, whata performance, all the characters were 1st class actors, and you could easly relate to the pain they were suffering, and at the end holding yourself together was so hard that in the end the tissues had to come out, the scene that got me, was when the rather selfish upper class mother, who you really couldn't warm to, finally broke at the end, and you could see the love and tears when she confessed how much she loved her daughter, who was lying on her death bed, try keeping it in, i tried but couldn't.