There are few film genres as manipulative as the "cancer romancer." Unleashed on the world with 1970's mega-smash Love Story, starring Ryan O'Neal and Ali MacGraw as a pair of star-crossed Harvardians whose nascent marriage is decimated by her terminal leukemia, this genre later flourished throughout the 2000s, with saccharine releases like Here on Earth, Sweet November, A Walk to Remember, P.S.
I Love You, The Fault in Our Starsand Me and Earl and the Dying Girl. Boy meets girl. Boy and girl fall in love. Boy or girl (although usually it's the girl, let's be real) receives a shattering diagnosis and perishes.
The remaining partner learns a tender lesson about seizing the day. Cue the waterworks. As the product of a young and happy marriage.
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