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Marvin's Room (1996)
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Scott McPherson's off-Broadway hit made a strong transition to the screen in this 1996 film by director Jerry Zaks. Diane Keaton stars as a woman who, while taking care of her vegetating father in Florida, discovers that she has leukemia. Only her long-estranged sister (Meryl Streep) or the sister's children can provide a possible match for a bone-marrow transplant. But the reunion is a rocky one, marked both by Streep's guilt at having abandoned her sister to take care of their father, and by the explosive dynamic between Streep and her rebellious, pyromaniac oldest son (Leonardo DiCaprio). As grim as this all sounds, there is a strong vein...
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This is a pretty good movie about family during times of crisis.
Leo Dicaprio plays the angry youth he would use in 'This Boy's Life' and 'The Basketball Diaries'. He is good, but outclassed by the ladies around him.
Diane Keaton plays the sick and motherly sister who has been left to care for her father, while the...
(complete Marvin's Room review by Jessica Film Junkie)
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