The best movie about friendship - unforgettable & a bucket filled with tears for sure...
A film about tight friendship between Dexter, an AIDs infected 11yo boy (a breathtaking role by Joseph Mazzello) and his healthy neighbor friend Eric (another thrilling role by Brad Renfro). This is a great movie for everyone to see even though there is strong language used!

The film sees Eric, a dysfunctional adolescent boy with a distant mother, moving into a new area where their next-door neighbor is 11yo Dexter, who contracted AIDS through a blood transfusion. After his initial fears and ignorance over AIDS are allayed, Eric befriends Dexter and their almost fraternal friendship sees them embark on a journey down the Mississippi to where they have heard about a New Orleans doctor who claims to have found a cure for the disease.
The talent from the two young leads of Brad Renfro and Joseph Mazzello, is exceptional! Brad was able to portray Eric's harder edge without comprising the subtle childish innocence inherent to the character while Joseph depicts the sense of vulnerability to Dexter's character but injects the right amount of boyish enthusiasm and zeal to highlight that his illness doesn't mean he still isn't a child who wants to run and play like any other 11yo boy. The pair's interactions create a feel in the audience that these are two boys who are genuinely close and they carry the film well. Annabella Sciorra also delivers a touching performance as Dexter's mother Linda, who adores her son and delights in seeing him thrive with this new friendship to Eric and eventually becomes a surrogate mother-figure to the other boy.
Set against an excellent soundtrack, 'The Cure' is a very bittersweet film that manages to flawlessly weave the story of boyhood friendship that survives unflinchingly in the midst of prejudice and terminal illness without resorting to sappiness or unnecessary saccharine sweet scenes. A very interesting reflection in the film is that is it t

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