I was not expecting this movie to be much. Being a T. Dalton fan I was looking for something to watch via Netflix. Started out kinda slow but soon there was some very good character development and a very real slant on what it could be like to be terminal. Then the relationships of the two terminally sick men came into play and it got more and more interesting. Yes, it was sad, but this is life sadness and happiness. The sad reality is that some people do not want to be bothered with disease or they think they could catch it and consequently abandon their sick family and friends. This is a horrible way to deal with sickness and eventually what goes around comes around but this should not be why a person shows compassion. Fear is awful when it hurts people who you care about. The most important thing you can do in your life is help other people. I really liked the movie and will recommend it to friends.

The phrase "laughing through your tears" must have been invented for this little jewel of a movie. Yes, there are scenes that I would have preferred they omit (mainly the brothel scene-- oh brother). But the overriding emotion in the performances of both Dalton and Edwards is riveting. And Dalton CAN play comedy. Don't play this for the monthly meeting of the AARP; but if hope and love mean anything to you, take a couple of hours and watch it. It can be life-changing.

The hospitalized character that Timothy Dalton plays here is probably one of the most obnoxious characters I've ever seen on film. From the moment his hospital room made Anthony Edwards wakes up, giving him a hard time, even leaving him bedridden on the roof. Edwards doesn't tell the suspicious nurses what happened, but how he deals with the harassment so hideous that Edwards risks his health to get away from him. It becomes unbelievable when they start to bond, simply because Dalton never shuts up, and I guess if you're dying, you feel you can break the rules oh, so they end up stealing an ambulance and going on the run to Amsterdam and trying to find one last adventure.

I enjoyed Timothy Dalton as an actor, but his obnoxiousness in playing this character is difficult to take. He seems to be doing a Terence Stamp/Priscilla Queen of the Desert imitation, without the charm. Edwards is playing a more serious version of rules he's already played, and I truly felt sorry for his character. Why he didn't call the head nurse and ask for a different room it's beyond me. This is a difficult film to like and it takes the most patient of people to deal with this one particular patients.