A pair of young lovers, one depressed, decide to end their lives together in a suicide pact.
Acting
Mullally's raw grief hits like a gut punch.
Writing
Jodi Picoult adaptation: morally messy, unflinching.
Director
Peter Werner
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Made-for-TV in 2002, this was Lifetime's rare prestige grab — they cast theater veterans Stevenson and Mullally specifically to elevate the material.
The shot of both mothers screaming in the hospital corridor, shot simultaneously from opposite angles, was improvised after Mullally and Stevenson kept overlapping their takes.
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