The Cure
Overview
A sensitive 11-year-old boy with AIDS teams up with a teenage rebel to sail down the Mississippi in search of a cure. Their adventure becomes a celebration of life and friendship.
Awards:
Main Cast & Crew:
Bill Borden - Director
Peter Horton - Director
Ronnie Rondell - Director
Joseph Mazzello
Brad Renfro
Diana Scarwid
Bruce Davison
Annabella Sciorra
Delphine French
Andrew Broder
Rosemary Corman
T. Mychael Rambo
David Alan Smith
Details
- Format: DVD (Full Frame, Dolby)
- Run Time: 99
- Color Format: Color
- UPC: 025192620027
- Genre: DRAMA
- Rating: PG-13 (MPAA)
- Release Date: November 2004
Movie Reviews
Synopsis:
"The Cure" is a touching tale of an unlikely friendship between two boys: Dexter, who has AIDS, and his neighbor Erik, a transplanted Southern teen trying to adjust to life in a new place.
Despite his mother's disapproval, Erik makes friends with his ailing, younger neighbor. At first the boys communicate from over the fence, but as the bond between them develops, Erik and Dexter come into closer contact. Their tight friendship ultimately leads the two to embark on a Mark Twain-like adventure down the Mississippi River.
Notes:
Released theatrically April 21, 1995. The film grossed $2,568,429 domestically.
Filmed in Deluxe color; released in Filmhouse prints.
Rated BBFC 12 by the British Board of Film Classification.
Reviews:
"...Charismatic performances..." - 04/21/1995 USA Today, p.7D
"...What makes us weep is not that Dexter has AIDS but that Dexter and Erik have each other....THE CURE has managed that miracle." - 04/21/1995 Entertainment Weekly, p.39
"...Technically handled with aplomb and a pleasant lack of fussiness, the picture has a coziness that takes the drama to a disquieting grass-roots level..." - 04/17/1995 Variety
"...Exceptionally well acted....A poignant pre-adolescent buddy movie..." - 04/21/1995 New York Times, p.C12
"...Well-acted....[Horton] does elicit beautifully drawn and sustained portrayals from his young actors and also from Sciorra..." - 04/21/1995 Los Angeles Times, p.F7
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