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Life is made up of choices

[bkoganbing · 6/10 · 23 September 2019]

This Christian based film is actually a thought provoking vehicle. You don't have to be a born again to know that life is made up of choices and those we make can have a ripple effect on us and all around us.

David Garrett is our title character and he's a promising treating and research oncologist. He thinks he's found a way to cure the stuff although I can't vouch for scientific theories presented. What happens is that his first guinea pig pateint turns out to be the father played by Jeff Joslin who abandoned him and his mother and Garrett never knew him.

There's also a romantic angle with Garrett and Kendra Carelli. And there is a heart tugging performance from Matt Godson as a child cancer patient.

If you think you know what happens, you don't. There's a big old joker hidden in this plot. He's who makes you think.

A truly excellent movie.

[fitforfaith-ministries · 9/10 · 16 March 2024]

It was a pleasant delight to have seen this movie. It is apparently filmed on a low budget, but it is very well-made and the script is perfect.

I was only wondering when it turns out to be a Christian movie and this finally happened in the last part of the movie. It was then just a bit too spontaneous and felt more like injected as afterthought (what it certainly not was).

It is a very beautiful story with a sudden and perfect end which leaves the viewer ponder about the essential message of the movie: do not murder innocent babies or embryos. We never know what the Lord has prepared and what consequences such an act could have.

I ONLY SAW THE LAST HALF OF THIS MOVIE BUT IT WAS STILL STELLAR

[marsupial-98018 · 10/10 · 8 May 2023]

I had to review this because even tho I only caught the movie half-way thru, I and a friend were overcome with what we saw.

First there was this cute dude who we assumed was a research scientist. He felt he'd found a cure for cancer. Next we know, he's speaking before a review board trying to convince them to approve his drug. A woman spokesman says no, she feels it's not safe because he can't prove it doesn't harm any good tissue --ironic because chemo harms good tissue but we don't see THAT being a hindrance to it being used---- ANYWAY, she turns him down. He storms out, vowing out loud that he still plans to continue his research. She yells back that she will shut him down if he does.

Scene changes -- It's his dad's house. Son apologizes for being angry at him -which I guess was because dad left him and his mom--boy, am sure glad I read prior review as this was in the first half of film we missed. Son says he has bad news, and tells dad son's serum was turned down. Dad is downcast. But son promises not to stop. Next we know, son and dad are in a lab setting, with dad being injected with son's serum. We find out he has cancer, and his son is determined to save him, no matter the cost.

Scene changes again. Scientist and girlfriend are out walking, He gets down on his knee and proposes - she says yes- what a CUTE couple-yay. He then tells dad about it and they agree to use the dad's farm for the wedding. But something happens then. I can't tell you everything or you won't want to see it. But you should. It's both phenomenal and heart-wrenching, but it's a GOOD heart-wrenching. It's an AHA moment. It turns what you think you know on its ear.

I am ordering the movie on DVD from Daystar: 1-888-755-0156.

My friend was jumping up and down at the end, and said she thought this movie should be playing on regular TV stations- I agreed- but that would indeed be a red-letter day.

My advice: Go find this and order it.