The Cure Page #4

Synopsis: Dexter, age 11, who has AIDS, and his next door neighbor Erik, a little older and much bigger, become best friends. Erik also becomes closer to Dexter's mother than to his own, who is neglectful and bigoted and violently forbids their friendship upon learning of it. When they read that a doctor in distant New Orleans claims to have found a cure for AIDS, the boys leave home on their own, planning to float down the Mississippi river and find him.
Genre: Drama
Director(s): Peter Horton
Production: Universal
  2 wins & 3 nominations.
 
IMDB:
7.7
Rotten Tomatoes:
45%
PG-13
Year:
1995
97 min
1,277 Views


There, that way.

Are you sure?

I'm not stupid!

We need something to eat...

I'm not hungry.

Okay, I'll go get the tickets.

Let's go...

What is it?

Zijn dat de jongens waar u het over had?

Right there!

How you doin' old man?

Hey, boys!

I think we need to have a little talk...

Come on boys! Something I said?

Was it the barbeque?

Go! Go now!

Pull! Pull damn it!

Hey, where's my money?

It's in my pocket.

Open this man!

I'm working on it!

You hurt yourself!

That I don't care!

I told ya!

This way! Come on!

Dead end!

What are you gonna do with that?

You want to give me a manicure or something?

Where's my money!

We need to go to New Orleans.

Oh, you need?

You all in over your head,

you understand?

So you want to play with Pony?

What the hell are you doing? Are you crazy?

I'm dying anyway!

It doesn't matter if he hurts me!

What are you talkin'? What is he talkin'?

He has Aids!

You'd be crazy to stab me...

My blood is like a poison...

A drop could kill you!

Bullshit!

Hey Pony!

Jimmy!

Jimmy!

Get the hell out of here!

My blood is like poison!

Pussies!

Get the hell out here!

I'm deadlier than the venom

of a cobra!

Pussies!

Dex, you're like a damn

superhero or something...

That was rad!

Here...

No...

I feel kinda sick...

You'll be alright

while I go get the tickets?

Yeah...

Are you cold?

No...

What is a matter?

My blood is poison...

You have a virus Dex...

and you're gonna be exactly

like everyone else,

the moment someone finds the cure.

Dr. Fishburn has the cure...

Wake up..

Are we in New Orleans?

Come on...

What a week!

Mom...

Sorry...

I wonder if I could see Dexter...

as long as I keep throwing up...

they have to have to stick this feeding tube

up my nose into my stomach.

Sounds gross...

It hurts...

Doesn't that?

Not nearly as much...

So you can't eat anything, huh?

No...

- No...

- That's too bad.

You know, maybe you can crumble

one up and put it into my IV...

Yeah...

You know what? I want to see if I

can sneak anymore leaves in here!

That's ok. Dr. Jensen said that

the stuff Orleans wasn't real.

I know, your mom told me...

Hey, look at this!

- Look at that!

- Is this you!

God you're an ugly baby!

Check it out with Angle!

You alright?

I like the old man.

What's this do?

It makes the bed go up,

or down...

What about this one?

Who's that?

I'll get it...

Kom hier alstublieft,

hij stopte met ademen!

What's a matter?

God, Jesus!

I was just talking to him,

and now he's dead!

I'm sorry honey, I guess we all

knew this is was coming.

No...

Not funny!

Not even a little bit...

Kids...

We all knew this was coming..

By the power invested in me,

I here by order that the execution begin...

Feeling better I guess.

You must be Erik...

I guess your road to the Nobel Prize

hit a few potholes?

More like the Grand Canyon...

Okay, open wide,

and say Ah.

Does it hurt when you talk?

Well let's see that hairy chest...

Please leave...

Leave!

He knows he's dying...

What?

We tricked the nurses into

thinking that he was dead,

and nurse Murphy said that

everyone knew it was coming...

So you tricked them...

We pretended that Dexter stopped breathing,

and he jumped up and

screamed and scared them...

She must have hit the roof...

Yeah, Dexter laughed his ass off!

Oh, well that's what happened to him

I thought he was on a diet or something...

Listen...

history is full with a very sick people,

who suddenly...

for no reason at all, get better.

And when that happens, we call it miracle...

from the moment I met you,

I knew that you are special...

and you might be one of those people...

You know I'm telling you

the truth, don't you?

I feel that inside you, can you.

So don't let me down, okay?

I'm counting on you to make me famous!

Well the young boy was upset!

Look, don't you ever, ever assumed

that one of my patient is gonna die.

I thought that was...

Mister, my friend's stop breathing!

I think he's dead...

Go get a nurse...

Sh*t, sh*t!

Oh, Jesus Christ!

you scared the living daylights out of me!

Oh, and we are amused, aren't we!

I'm not laughing... do you see me laughing?

Oh, Dex!

My shift ends at four...

That's mine - here comes the breaker -

nobody cry...

I think you really bad, actually...

I terribly impressed...

He's got all the good ones, and me...

I told you, I told you...

I'm good at this game, I can't win but...

Alright, Hal...

I'll go in through the emergency airlock!

Without your space helmet Dave...

you're going to find

that rather difficult...

How will I do, anymore?

Open the door!

Dave...

this conversation conserve

no purpose anymore.

Goodbye...

Hal?

You've watch 20th time around?

Want anything from the giftshop?

And you...

You ready for another victim?

You sure?

Doctor! My friend!

I think he could be dead,

I don't know what to do.

I'm sorry...

It's green...

I'm sorry...

I'm sorry too...

I should've tried harder...

Tried what?

Find the cure...

God bless you... c'mon honey.

You did, you did...

Everything that was sad in Dexter's life...

was silence,

so don't accused...

You made it go away...

Dexter was so happy

to have you as his friend!

He was so happy... I don't know how.

I know that,

there's some of his things that...

Get out!

Get in that car!

No...

Get your ass in the car, now!

Wait a minute!

Let me talk to you!

I have nothing to say to you!

Erik, shut up!

Just talk to you for a minute, inside?

Please!

Just a minute!

What!

I wanna tell you two things..

The first is Erik's bestfriend died

today, he is going to funeral...

The second is:
if you ever lay a hand

on that boy again, I will kill you!

Understand?

Let's go...

Take as much time as you want...

Hey...

Do you mind if you going walk home?

No, of course not...

You're gonna...?

Come around and visit every

once in a while, aren't you?

25 cents!

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