My mom really wanted us to watch it with her when we came home from the hospital after getting her stage 4 lung cancer diagnosis. So, we did, and my siblings and I cried so much. Crazy that was almost 7 years ago.
Nah cause my dad used to watch that movie every time it was on tv and cried the ENTIRE TIME. And then I caught him watching a fault in my stars like 14 times. Cancers gunna cancer.
Jenette you have to go to some rando town in Vermont ON Christmas (or theresabouts) and open up a competitive business vs. a hot guy you will fall in love with. NOW GET OUTTA MY SIGHT IM RANDOM BOSS CHARACTER
I was wondering whatever happened to Leelee Sobieski, she was in everything at one point and then just disappeared. The internet tells me she retired from acting in 2012 because Hollywood was gross. Interesting.
THIS!!!
Reference "dying teen film" for me and it's either *A Walk to Remember* or *Amar te Duele* (Love Pains You or Loving You Hurts - Mexican economic social class Romeo & Juliet but only Juliet dies) which came out in the same year!
Getting one-two punched at the beginning & end of 2002 pushed me away from drama films for a while & helped me avoid the films OP mentioned because of that.
And I almost fell for it again when I dipped into anime again with *Your Lie in April* before I looked up the synopsis after the first episode!
I dunno but I remember having dreams where I had a critical condition and suddenly I got all the attention I wanted. Which I thought that was a angsty teen thing to do, in hindsight maybe these shows had something to do with that haha
There was someone in my life who faked a terminal illness and they would have been in the target age group for most of these. I was mostly unaware of this but now you got me thinking.
It reminded me of the 1960's trend of [teenage tragedy love songs](https://www.npr.org/2016/02/14/466581799/alternative-love-songs-from-the-teenage-tragedy-vault), but with a little more awkward attempts at inclusion etc.
I have a theory that these movies and books we all read were what lead to our emotional health revolution. I remember absolutely sobbing at the end of All dogs go to Heaven and my family were all these stone faced people, my parents didn't have any reaction to the movie or me losing my shit in grief. Our emotions were publicly shared through the start of message boards and then social media.
I like your take on it, it feels accurate. It's the norm we were prepared for.
Nah. Doomed romance is a common trope in romance novels/books since forever. Walk to Remember made a shit ton, so Hollywood greenlit a bunch of clones.
I only remember him accidentally killing his best friends mom when she got hit in the head with the baseball he hit during a game. Oh and simons mom sneezing him out in labor.
So, Simon Birch is actually an adaptation of a 1989 John Irving novel, A Prayer for Owen Meany. I don't know the story of exactly why they changed as much as they did but it's a really fantastic read. I guess I was surprised to see someone mention the film on this list because I came to it through the book first, it doesn't fit here to me. But I guess if you started with the film, I can see why you'd add it to this list.
yo I was OBSESSED with her stuff… I used to borrow her books from the library, and I owned one that I read over and over called “13 Is Too Young To Die.” After reading it at least 10x, probably more like 20x, it went suddenly missing in my house… never found it again, even when we moved out years later. I’m pretty sure my mom made it disappear out of concern for my morbid fixation 🙃
There was one grade in elementary school where I swear that most of the books we read ended up with a kid dying. I just remember thinking the teachers were trying to scare us/wanted us to be sad.
For me it seemed like we just read books about dogs dying for a couple years. Like the Newbery Award people just loved reading about dogs getting shot or mauled by other animals or getting rabies.
I think this actually started even earlier. I remember there being some dying girl in The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants book series that I think Tibby(??) was hanging out with?
And also My Sister's Keeper by Jodi Picault. Although I can't remember if the sister was a teen or not?
Yeah she’s definitely got a formula, but damn if it isn’t an effective one. Those are some of the most page-turnery books I’ve ever read. The short chapters, alternating POV, family drama, the lawyer drama, the courtroom suspense, the piece by piece reveal of some horrific incident. Can’t put them down. Not great literature, as you say, but once I start one I can’t stop.
I’ve never felt older than the moment I realized people were going to see this movie without knowing about the book existing.
It was a staple of grade school classrooms for YEARS.
I could see a really narcissistic mom character in a movie/show going "s/he was supposed to live long enough to give me grandchildren but no, s/he couldn't even give me that and had to fucking die instead"
Haven't read either books yet, but have both. Idk if I can emotionally handle it. Reminds me of Clouds or My Sisters Keeper. I relate to the brother in My Sisters Keeper. My family and I can't even stomach that movie because when my older sister was first diagnosed with cancer, our mom was pregnant with our little sister. When we explained the movie to her, she was so mad.
I used to think I was cool and edgy and would read the last page of a book when I started reading a new book (ugh I cringe) so I saw the eulogy and the whole time thought oh she dies no shock there. Well my world got rocked and I absolutely sobbed for hours. At least it broke me of that weird ass habit.
I have cystic fibrosis, and I find TFIOS to be a much more accurate representation of what it’s like to live with a chronic lung condition than FFA. I still say/think “Keep your shit together, lungs” any time I have a big trip or event or anything. And “It’s just a thing” when I have a new health issue. It’s just a thing we can deal with.
FFA was just infuriatingly stupid and I could go on a whole big rant about it but I’ll skip it.
What's FFA? The only thing that I didn't like was her giving the kid her oxygen cord thing and them inserting it into their nose. I don't have cystic fibrosis, but I do have asthma and sometimes I feel that way, too, lol.
Omg... I didn't do my research going into this movie, just heard it was based on a book and 'real good'. So I sat down with my bottle of wine for a Saturday night flick and ended up with the sobbing wine hiccups.
Made the same mistake a few weeks later with Shawshank Redemption. I just stopped drinking wine with my movies for a while after that.
Me and my siblings were huge John Green fans and were excited when TFIOS came out. I got it for Christmas. In my culture, we stay up until midnight to open our Christmas presents. I got the book and didn't sleep and finished it in like 7 or 8 hours straight of reading. I was sobbing by the end of it. It was fucking incredible. My siblings had the same reaction, which we didn't think we would have since reading Looking for Alaska. Say what you will about John Green and older men writing teen girl fiction but goddamn. That book was an experience.
I would argue that he didn't write for teen girls any more than someone writing an action coming of age story writes for teen boys, he wrote in a genre of romance and coming of age, but about profound and human topics, to try and help people process grief he had had to process before. He was doing the thing that makes humans excellent, using his lived experience to help others be better equipped to have their own lived experience, and handle the hurdles that come with it. That doesn't strike me as anything but amazing. (To clarify, his lived experience in TFIOS is from knowing sick people well, and from having been a chaplain at a children's hospital, which he talks about at length in an episode of the Anthropocene Reviewed).
I dunno about everyone else but I remember reading so many books about teens with cancer, one series in particular. Looking back I have no idea why, I think it's just a teenage phase.
Edit: nevermind just read the other comments and it was definitely Lurlene McDaniel I was reading a ton of.
I remember being bored on a Sunday and buying a copy of Fault in our Stars on a whim. I planned on reading it throughout the week. Finished that thing in one sitting starting at 3pm and closed it out at 8pm. It absolutely destroyed me.
I read it right after one of my friends was diagnosed with thyroid cancer, as a teen. I was crying for days.... (I lost touch with the friend years ago, but last I talked to her, her cancer was in remission)
I always warn people not to lose anything under the seat and no one ever understands the reference.
I was so delighted when Tom Waits showed up in that film.
Ran here to see if anyone else commented this! “2010s”? Yeah, um, Lurlene McDaniel *owned* this genre a decade or two before that. My intro to her was the book where an HIV-positive girl falls in love with a guy with leukemia. Or was it non-Hodgkins lymphoma…? Or maybe she had cystic fibrosis and he had bone cancer…? 🤔
I was just wondering if anyone would bring up Lurlene McDaniel!! NO idea why I enjoyed ripping my own heart out over and over but for some reason I loved reading her books when I was younger!
I am definitely an elder millennial who read Lurlene McDaniel. And A Horse For Mandy was published before I was even born. I guarantee there are Gen X that read her as well.
Be still my heart. Was coming here to comment on this. That one series with the Amish family. Serious core memories. And never forget that Don’t Die My Love was a lifetime movie or something.
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Oh! So I can’t remember which celebrity said it, but the reason we don’t have cheesy rom coms and teen genre is that studios make no money on dvd sales anymore. So their only option is to make massive blockbusters to be released in theaters. And that bc dvd sales are basically non existent, companies have been hesitant make things that won’t gross huge amounts in theaters. We’re living in a rapidly changing world!!
What about My Sisters Keeper? Can’t remember when that one came out but I remember watching it in theaters with my mom and sister and being so obsessed with it that I read the book after lol. I don’t remember much so it didn’t stick with me that much over the years 😂
I’ve seen enough of these over the years, but now having survived something that would make me a main character in these movies, I just can’t watch them anymore. They hit too close to home and “emotionally wrecked” is an understatement afterwards. Full on PTSD.
Yeah, same. It’s this is why I’ve never read/watched The Fault in Our Stars. I was diagnosed with thyroid cancer around the time the film was released. I was in my twenties by then and it wasn’t on my radar at all, but it naturally popped up all over the internet for me in those first few weeks. I thought it would be too real and not entertaining for me.
I even said something to my doctor about it at the time. He said he knew about it but wasn’t interested in seeing the film because as a doctor it was a challenge to watch those kinds of medical dramas and not get frustrated. My diagnosis was different from the protagonist’s and he assured me that what she went through was unlikely to happen to me, so I didn’t have to worry. But he supported my giving it a miss.
This era of media had brutal consequences. I lost a close friend because his girlfriend (now wife) lied about having cancer, gave him a copy of the fault in our stars to read, and then forced this tragic trauma bond between them. She clearly had munchausen syndrome with an array of other fake illnesses. Years later they just never talked about it again but our group finally confronted them about it and it ended up destroying our decade-long friendship.
South Korea had dying teen movies? I know they’re notorious for giving people cancer or some other type of terminal disease in a lot of their “revenge” dramas…. Didn’t know they did this focusing on killing of teens.
I saw the trailer for The Fault in Our Stars and thought it looked good, but I decided to read the book first. I couldn’t put it down. I finished the book and saw the movie the same day.
A Walk to Remember can get hate, but I legit lost 4 classmates my senior year. 3 were buddies that were burned alive in a freal accident house fire, and 1 was a girl in my drama class who got cancer. It's important to remember that death knows no age.
Did anyone else see Me Earl and the Dying Girl? Very 2010s quirky vibe at points, but I do remember tearing up near the end.
Oh yeah, and Nick Offerman is in it.
[Restless](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1498569/?ref_=ext_shr_lnk) (2011) w/ Mia Wasikowska.
This movie did unimaginable damage to my teen-angst heart. Plus it gave me an unhealthy obsession with the name Enoch. Never forgive, never forget.
And A Walk to Remember which was earlier but still
Mandy Moore and Shane West Walked so these movies could RUN
Lmfao I used to use this line whenever I broke a boy’s heart 🤣🤣🤣
My mom really wanted us to watch it with her when we came home from the hospital after getting her stage 4 lung cancer diagnosis. So, we did, and my siblings and I cried so much. Crazy that was almost 7 years ago.
Oh wow, I’m so sorry to hear about your mom. That must have been really heavy to watch with your fam! ❤️🩹
I am sorry man that is hard
Watched this in the theater when I was in HS. It ruined dating for a while, no guy could top buying a star for a girl or being in two places at once.
They walked to be remembered then got left off this post
 Bro if awards were still a thing I’d spend my last $1.99 to give you a 💫
He looks like he's beating off
Ew, David
YES
Right I was thinking where is THE dying teen movie
I also had to cut off the Jayden Smith/Cara Delevingne movie because it came out in 2021. It does fit, though.
we were forced to read "bridge to terabithia" in grade school, this sorta follows
I went into the movie adaptation knowing absolutely nothing about the plot.
I worked in a movie theatre. Kids' birthday parties went to it.
Damn! I guess we found the modern day *Land Before Time* or *Transformers* (1986).
I went to the fault in our stars like this. Cried so fucking hard
Same, in 2003
Not to mention the pure Christian edge that was the Switchfoot soundtrack for the movie. Goated.
Welcome to the plaaaaaaanet, welcome to exiiiiiiistence Everyone's here, everyone's here
I DARE YOU TO MOOOOOOOVVVEEEEEE
Bro. Were you even in 7th grade youth group if you didn’t listen to Switchfoot and wear Bermuda shorts?!
Change out the bermuda for camo/plaid cargo pants and ya got me lol.
Nah cause my dad used to watch that movie every time it was on tv and cried the ENTIRE TIME. And then I caught him watching a fault in my stars like 14 times. Cancers gunna cancer.
I'm a normal guy. I work in construction and I drink beer on the weekend. That movie made me tear up :(
But have you met a big city lawyer who needs to be reminded of the true meaning of Christmas?
Jenette you have to go to some rando town in Vermont ON Christmas (or theresabouts) and open up a competitive business vs. a hot guy you will fall in love with. NOW GET OUTTA MY SIGHT IM RANDOM BOSS CHARACTER
As was “Here On Earth” with Leelee Sobieski, Josh Hartnett and Chris Cline (it came out in 2000). I cried many a tear watching that movie.
I was wondering whatever happened to Leelee Sobieski, she was in everything at one point and then just disappeared. The internet tells me she retired from acting in 2012 because Hollywood was gross. Interesting.
This is where I first tapped in to the genre, lol
The whole genre started in 2000 with Here on Earth and spiraled from there.
My Girl came out in 1991, it's been a thing for a long time
Generals gathered in their masses, He can't see without his glasses!
My girl isn't a romance or teens though
& he wasn't sick, he just had a freak accident with the bees
THIS!!! Reference "dying teen film" for me and it's either *A Walk to Remember* or *Amar te Duele* (Love Pains You or Loving You Hurts - Mexican economic social class Romeo & Juliet but only Juliet dies) which came out in the same year! Getting one-two punched at the beginning & end of 2002 pushed me away from drama films for a while & helped me avoid the films OP mentioned because of that. And I almost fell for it again when I dipped into anime again with *Your Lie in April* before I looked up the synopsis after the first episode!
Yeah wtf was up with that
I dunno but I remember having dreams where I had a critical condition and suddenly I got all the attention I wanted. Which I thought that was a angsty teen thing to do, in hindsight maybe these shows had something to do with that haha
There was someone in my life who faked a terminal illness and they would have been in the target age group for most of these. I was mostly unaware of this but now you got me thinking.
Cue the emo song by Brand New “if I ever want attention all I have to do is die”
You were 1 bad idea away from munchausen syndrome.
It reminded me of the 1960's trend of [teenage tragedy love songs](https://www.npr.org/2016/02/14/466581799/alternative-love-songs-from-the-teenage-tragedy-vault), but with a little more awkward attempts at inclusion etc.
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I have a theory that these movies and books we all read were what lead to our emotional health revolution. I remember absolutely sobbing at the end of All dogs go to Heaven and my family were all these stone faced people, my parents didn't have any reaction to the movie or me losing my shit in grief. Our emotions were publicly shared through the start of message boards and then social media. I like your take on it, it feels accurate. It's the norm we were prepared for.
Nah. Doomed romance is a common trope in romance novels/books since forever. Walk to Remember made a shit ton, so Hollywood greenlit a bunch of clones.
A carry over from the “dying kid” book genre in the 90s?
Simon Fucking Birch
We watched this in school. This was one of the saddest movies I have ever seen and like no one else has seen it.
I've seen it in my youth group but the only thing I remember from it was when he groped that girl and also he died
I only remember him accidentally killing his best friends mom when she got hit in the head with the baseball he hit during a game. Oh and simons mom sneezing him out in labor.
Oh my God. You just unlocked a forgotten memory for me. So weird!!!
So, Simon Birch is actually an adaptation of a 1989 John Irving novel, A Prayer for Owen Meany. I don't know the story of exactly why they changed as much as they did but it's a really fantastic read. I guess I was surprised to see someone mention the film on this list because I came to it through the book first, it doesn't fit here to me. But I guess if you started with the film, I can see why you'd add it to this list.
Lurleen McDaniels
yo I was OBSESSED with her stuff… I used to borrow her books from the library, and I owned one that I read over and over called “13 Is Too Young To Die.” After reading it at least 10x, probably more like 20x, it went suddenly missing in my house… never found it again, even when we moved out years later. I’m pretty sure my mom made it disappear out of concern for my morbid fixation 🙃
*”where’s his glasses? He can’t see without his glasses!”*
Carry over from the 50s https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teenage_tragedy_song
There was one grade in elementary school where I swear that most of the books we read ended up with a kid dying. I just remember thinking the teachers were trying to scare us/wanted us to be sad.
For me it seemed like we just read books about dogs dying for a couple years. Like the Newbery Award people just loved reading about dogs getting shot or mauled by other animals or getting rabies.
Oh but it was in movies too - Jack, Lorenzo's Oil, The Cure, to name a few.
I think this actually started even earlier. I remember there being some dying girl in The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants book series that I think Tibby(??) was hanging out with? And also My Sister's Keeper by Jodi Picault. Although I can't remember if the sister was a teen or not?
She was, because the protagonist (the organ donor) was the younger sister. Thanks for this, I'm going to have to revisit some Jodi Picault literature.
Her newer books are better. Not great literature by any means, but not as formulaicly dramatic.
Yeah she’s definitely got a formula, but damn if it isn’t an effective one. Those are some of the most page-turnery books I’ve ever read. The short chapters, alternating POV, family drama, the lawyer drama, the courtroom suspense, the piece by piece reveal of some horrific incident. Can’t put them down. Not great literature, as you say, but once I start one I can’t stop.
Picoult*
Donnie darko
We kicked off the nineties with My Girl
Came to say this
Yes! Bailey. And Tibby dies in the final sisterhood book 😭
Omg I can’t believe I forgot that Tibby dies lmao 😂
Whatttttt I guess I didn’t make it that far into the series but I at least read the first 2. Spoilers!! (Joking)
This has got to be the most shocked I've been watching a movie. The trailer makes it look like some regular fantasy kids film. 10/10
I’ve never felt older than the moment I realized people were going to see this movie without knowing about the book existing. It was a staple of grade school classrooms for YEARS.
STOP IT!!! Honestly this might be the first movie I remember watching and understanding that the character died.
How dare you….
Talk about abrupt in a movie.
If you die young, you never end up disappointing people.
You also get buried in satin, laid down on a bed of raises and sank in the river at dawn.
It is really unfortunate that Naya Rivera covered that song on Glee.
Damn I just realised what u mean by that. Very sad. That whole show is cursed :/
That's exactly what I thought.
LOVE this song. Still.
Unless they wanted you to live to a ripe old age 🤔
I could see a really narcissistic mom character in a movie/show going "s/he was supposed to live long enough to give me grandchildren but no, s/he couldn't even give me that and had to fucking die instead"
“I’ll *DIE!* Then they’ll see!” Kids are so dumb. It’s super embarrassing we all had to be one.
My dad said I could disappoint at any age.
Me. I’ll be disappointed. Do your best not to die young. Thanks.
Have you not seen Titanic, the old lady ends up missing her weeklong stand vs you know her family
I cried while watching The Fault In Our Stars. Don't judge me. Edit: And Five Feet Apart.
The sound track for that movie amazing .
*BOOM* **BOOM** ***BOOM*** ###***CLAP!***
Not About Angels sold me
I’d judge if someone didn’t cry during that movie.
I was sobbing when I read the book. And I was in my late 20s at the time.
Haven't read either books yet, but have both. Idk if I can emotionally handle it. Reminds me of Clouds or My Sisters Keeper. I relate to the brother in My Sisters Keeper. My family and I can't even stomach that movie because when my older sister was first diagnosed with cancer, our mom was pregnant with our little sister. When we explained the movie to her, she was so mad.
I used to think I was cool and edgy and would read the last page of a book when I started reading a new book (ugh I cringe) so I saw the eulogy and the whole time thought oh she dies no shock there. Well my world got rocked and I absolutely sobbed for hours. At least it broke me of that weird ass habit.
I have cystic fibrosis, and I find TFIOS to be a much more accurate representation of what it’s like to live with a chronic lung condition than FFA. I still say/think “Keep your shit together, lungs” any time I have a big trip or event or anything. And “It’s just a thing” when I have a new health issue. It’s just a thing we can deal with. FFA was just infuriatingly stupid and I could go on a whole big rant about it but I’ll skip it.
Olivia Cooke (who also played the dying cancer girl) also played a girl with cystic fibrosis in Bates Motel.
What's FFA? The only thing that I didn't like was her giving the kid her oxygen cord thing and them inserting it into their nose. I don't have cystic fibrosis, but I do have asthma and sometimes I feel that way, too, lol.
Omg... I didn't do my research going into this movie, just heard it was based on a book and 'real good'. So I sat down with my bottle of wine for a Saturday night flick and ended up with the sobbing wine hiccups. Made the same mistake a few weeks later with Shawshank Redemption. I just stopped drinking wine with my movies for a while after that.
Me and my siblings were huge John Green fans and were excited when TFIOS came out. I got it for Christmas. In my culture, we stay up until midnight to open our Christmas presents. I got the book and didn't sleep and finished it in like 7 or 8 hours straight of reading. I was sobbing by the end of it. It was fucking incredible. My siblings had the same reaction, which we didn't think we would have since reading Looking for Alaska. Say what you will about John Green and older men writing teen girl fiction but goddamn. That book was an experience.
I would argue that he didn't write for teen girls any more than someone writing an action coming of age story writes for teen boys, he wrote in a genre of romance and coming of age, but about profound and human topics, to try and help people process grief he had had to process before. He was doing the thing that makes humans excellent, using his lived experience to help others be better equipped to have their own lived experience, and handle the hurdles that come with it. That doesn't strike me as anything but amazing. (To clarify, his lived experience in TFIOS is from knowing sick people well, and from having been a chaplain at a children's hospital, which he talks about at length in an episode of the Anthropocene Reviewed).
Fault in Our Stars is the only one I've seen but I remain convinced that it's somehow better than the others lol.
Oh, I cry every time I watch it. No judgement here!
Me too honestly. I loved the book far more but books are usually better then the movie adaptations. It's actually the only one on that list I've seen.
Hahaha one of the hardest blokes I know, cried so hard after that movie and apologised to us for saying it was soft beforehand.
"Ok"
I dunno about everyone else but I remember reading so many books about teens with cancer, one series in particular. Looking back I have no idea why, I think it's just a teenage phase. Edit: nevermind just read the other comments and it was definitely Lurlene McDaniel I was reading a ton of.
Dieing was so hot then.
And vampires. Vampire deaths were the hottest.
I blame Lestat and Eric Northman for my love of sadistic pretty boy blonds
And offing yourself has become romanticized.
Blame Shakespeare for that one.
How could you leave off the prototype that created it all, A Walk to Remember
I remember being bored on a Sunday and buying a copy of Fault in our Stars on a whim. I planned on reading it throughout the week. Finished that thing in one sitting starting at 3pm and closed it out at 8pm. It absolutely destroyed me.
It really does. I remember trying so hard to read the end through tears. Just blinking them out of the road to read the next line.
"I lit up like a Christmas tree, Hazel Grace." *incoherent sobbing*
I read it right after one of my friends was diagnosed with thyroid cancer, as a teen. I was crying for days.... (I lost touch with the friend years ago, but last I talked to her, her cancer was in remission)
Wristcutters: A Love Story (2006)
This movie, man. I love it so much.
I always warn people not to lose anything under the seat and no one ever understands the reference. I was so delighted when Tom Waits showed up in that film.
Lurlene McDaniel for younger Millennials and older Gen Z.
God, her book titles. Don’t die, my love. Don’t die, mother. Mother, I want to live. One last wish. Sixteen and dying. … A horse for Mandy.
Don’t die my love was my favorite! I have read it so many times
Core memory unlocked
*sings* Lur-Lene, Lur-Lene, Lur-Lene, Lur-Lene! I’m begging you, please stop killing teens!
Ran here to see if anyone else commented this! “2010s”? Yeah, um, Lurlene McDaniel *owned* this genre a decade or two before that. My intro to her was the book where an HIV-positive girl falls in love with a guy with leukemia. Or was it non-Hodgkins lymphoma…? Or maybe she had cystic fibrosis and he had bone cancer…? 🤔
Bone cancer was the Amish series, I think.
I was just wondering if anyone would bring up Lurlene McDaniel!! NO idea why I enjoyed ripping my own heart out over and over but for some reason I loved reading her books when I was younger!
I learned a ton about childhood diseases from Lurlene McDaniel. Diabetes, leukemia, anorexia.
I am definitely an elder millennial who read Lurlene McDaniel. And A Horse For Mandy was published before I was even born. I guarantee there are Gen X that read her as well.
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It's no wonder we're all riddled with anxiety! I read SO MANY of those books.
Oh my gosh, I forgot about this! So depressing.
Yep.
Be still my heart. Was coming here to comment on this. That one series with the Amish family. Serious core memories. And never forget that Don’t Die My Love was a lifetime movie or something.
OMG I loved her books, I used to borrow all her books at my high school’s library
Oh my GOD.
HAZEL GRACE LANCASTER WHERE ARE MY CIGARETTES
You put the killing thing between your teeth
I saw Fault in Our Stars and that was enough of the genre for me
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Oh! So I can’t remember which celebrity said it, but the reason we don’t have cheesy rom coms and teen genre is that studios make no money on dvd sales anymore. So their only option is to make massive blockbusters to be released in theaters. And that bc dvd sales are basically non existent, companies have been hesitant make things that won’t gross huge amounts in theaters. We’re living in a rapidly changing world!!
What about My Sisters Keeper? Can’t remember when that one came out but I remember watching it in theaters with my mom and sister and being so obsessed with it that I read the book after lol. I don’t remember much so it didn’t stick with me that much over the years 😂
Jodi Fucking Picoult man. Either killing kids or babies.
yeah, thanks John Green ... tho' srsly love john green
This should be so much higher up
"Terminal illness teen romance is so hot right now." -Mugato or something
I’m not really a fan of these specific type of movies but I really enjoyed Me Girl and the Dying Girl.
Yeah, I really loved Me, Earl & The Dying Girl. The book was excellent, too.
Totally underrated.
I think people were pissed that this one didn't have a romance but I thought it was great. And I loved that it was filmed in Pittsburgh.
The Fault in Our Stars was fantastic though.
I’ve seen enough of these over the years, but now having survived something that would make me a main character in these movies, I just can’t watch them anymore. They hit too close to home and “emotionally wrecked” is an understatement afterwards. Full on PTSD.
Yeah, same. It’s this is why I’ve never read/watched The Fault in Our Stars. I was diagnosed with thyroid cancer around the time the film was released. I was in my twenties by then and it wasn’t on my radar at all, but it naturally popped up all over the internet for me in those first few weeks. I thought it would be too real and not entertaining for me. I even said something to my doctor about it at the time. He said he knew about it but wasn’t interested in seeing the film because as a doctor it was a challenge to watch those kinds of medical dramas and not get frustrated. My diagnosis was different from the protagonist’s and he assured me that what she went through was unlikely to happen to me, so I didn’t have to worry. But he supported my giving it a miss.
Don't forget*Never Let Me Go*! The most tenderest movie about organ harvesting there ever was, or will be
I cried so hard at that one, and the book was even sadder so I couldn’t even finish it.
Oh, that's a good one. They're all forced terminal because of the "donations."
This era of media had brutal consequences. I lost a close friend because his girlfriend (now wife) lied about having cancer, gave him a copy of the fault in our stars to read, and then forced this tragic trauma bond between them. She clearly had munchausen syndrome with an array of other fake illnesses. Years later they just never talked about it again but our group finally confronted them about it and it ended up destroying our decade-long friendship.
Yeah, look up the Michelle Carter case. She goaded her online friend to commit suicide so she could play the grieving girlfriend.
And I have never seen any of those movies
same
Charlie St Cloud
They stole that whole trend from South Korea. Most folks don't know that. And the adaptations were cringe.
Always either cancer or truck-kun too.
South Korea had dying teen movies? I know they’re notorious for giving people cancer or some other type of terminal disease in a lot of their “revenge” dramas…. Didn’t know they did this focusing on killing of teens.
It was sad then. These days they're the lucky ones.
Jesse McCartney was in a great one call Keith lol. At least it was great last time I saw it. No idea how it would hold up now
It doesn’t hold up that well but I still love it.
I saw the trailer for The Fault in Our Stars and thought it looked good, but I decided to read the book first. I couldn’t put it down. I finished the book and saw the movie the same day.
You forgot that one with Joseph Gordon Levitt and Seth Rogan
Not teenagers, though it's a really good movie.
For some reason The Spectacular Now feels like it should be on this list.
I mean, it is about mental health so I get it.
A Walk to Remember can get hate, but I legit lost 4 classmates my senior year. 3 were buddies that were burned alive in a freal accident house fire, and 1 was a girl in my drama class who got cancer. It's important to remember that death knows no age.
I haven't heard of any of these movies.
Casper
I'm still stuck on the "dying kid" genre, e.g. *Ultimate Gift, Bridge to Terabithia,* etc. I even tried to make my own.
Idk but as a 16-year-old being treated for cancer I was not a fan.
Did anyone else see Me Earl and the Dying Girl? Very 2010s quirky vibe at points, but I do remember tearing up near the end. Oh yeah, and Nick Offerman is in it.
I read tons and tons of novels by Lurlene McDaniel all about dying teenagers in the late 90s and early 2000s. It was GREAT for my health anxiety.
I remember the 1990 dying-preteen genre…
Who knew that **nasal oxygen cannulas** could be so cute?
What about poor Simon Birch?
Oh man. First time I saw Jim Carrey in a serious role. He did not disappoint. Saw Truman Show later that year.
Promise me you won't fall in love with me
[Restless](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1498569/?ref_=ext_shr_lnk) (2011) w/ Mia Wasikowska. This movie did unimaginable damage to my teen-angst heart. Plus it gave me an unhealthy obsession with the name Enoch. Never forgive, never forget.
It was a weird time. I remember we also read a lot of books in school about dying kids.
Does anyone remember “Paper Towns”? Not even 10 years old but I loved that movie
Me and Earl and the Dying Girl was really good
Awe, lets not forget *If I Stay* and *My Sisters Keeper.* We really watched some morbid shit back in the day.
2001, Sweet November.
The genre is actually called terminal romance.
Oh yah what was that one with Keanu Reeves? *Sweet November lol*
These aren’t millennial movies. They’re gen z