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Can We Still Bear Cancer Movies—Like Disney’s Clouds—During a Pandemic?
Love Story, the classic 1970 Ali MacGraw romance that started an oddly specific and prolific subgenre of movies about young people dying of cancer. The Oscar-nominated movie was followed by in 2002, in which Mandy Moore’s character, before she succumbs to the disease, tells her boyfriend, “Without suffering there would be no compassion.”In 2014, gave us even more reasons to cry. In it, Shailene Woodley’s 16-year-old cancer patient character eulogizes her boyfriend, weeping, “You gave me a forever within the numbered days.