5.1
Viewer Rating
Combines user and critic ratings from four sources
Dying Young (1991)
Bias Rating
Analyzing...
Leans Traditional
Viewer Rating
Rating: 5.1
Overview
After she discovers that her boyfriend has betrayed her, Hilary O'Neil is looking for a new start and a new job. She begins to work as a private nurse for a young man suffering from blood cancer. Slowly, they fall in love, but they always know their love cannot last because he is destined to die.
Starring Cast
Bias Dimensions
Political: Center
Diversity: Low
Overview
After she discovers that her boyfriend has betrayed her, Hilary O'Neil is looking for a new start and a new job. She begins to work as a private nurse for a young man suffering from blood cancer. Slowly, they fall in love, but they always know their love cannot last because he is destined to die.
Starring Cast
Detailed Bias Analysis
Analyzing...
Leans Traditional
Primary
The film's central focus is a personal drama about love, illness, and individual growth, with class differences serving as a backdrop rather than a subject of political critique. Its themes are apolitical, emphasizing human connection and resilience.
The film features traditional casting with no explicit race or gender swaps of traditionally white roles. Its narrative maintains a neutral to positive framing of traditional identities, without incorporating any explicit DEI critiques or themes.
Secondary
Dying Young does not feature any identifiable LGBTQ+ characters or themes. The storyline focuses exclusively on a heterosexual romance and the challenges presented by a terminal illness, with no elements suggesting queer identity or experiences are present or explored.
The film "Dying Young" does not feature any identifiable transsexual characters or themes. Its narrative centers on a heterosexual romantic drama, thus rendering the transsexual portrayal N/A.
The movie does not contain any action or adventure elements.
The film "Dying Young" is an adaptation of Marti Leimback's novel. All primary characters, including Hilary O'Neil and Victor Geddes, maintain the same gender as established in the source material. No significant characters underwent a gender change from the book to the screen.
The film "Dying Young" is an adaptation of a novel. There is no evidence that any character, canonically established as one race in the source material, was portrayed by an actor of a different race in the 1991 film.
Viewer Rating Breakdown
User Ratings
6.0
6.7
Critic Ratings
2.5
N/A
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