
This Is Love
1978-01-26 · 100 min · ★ 5.3
Tearjerker about an estranged couple and their terminally ill son.
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- Directors
- Filippo Ottoni
- Production companies
- Creative Films Century
- Countries
- Italy
- Status
- Released
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Christopher GeorgeMike
Gay HamiltonGwen
Laura TrotterJenny
Christopher BigginsFather Christmas
Stephen LewisPoliceman
Valerio RuggeriDoctor
Roberto BruniJudge
Stefania SpugniniCarolTitle information and images are supplied by TMDb. Explore our discovery guide for advice on comparing metadata and legal viewing options.
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Estranged from his family, Jonathan (Hedlund) discovers his father has decided to take himself off life support in forty-eight hours’ time. During this intensely condensed period, a lifetime of drama plays out. Robert (Jenkins) fights a zero sum game to reclaim all that his illness stole from his family. A debate rages on patients’ rights and what it truly means to be free. Jonathan reconciles with his father, reconnects with his mother (Archer), sister (Brown-Findlay), and his love (Adams) and reclaims his voice through two unlikely catalysts – a young, wise-beyond-her-years patient (Barden) and a no-nonsense nurse (Hudson). Through this intensely life affirming prism, an unexpected and powerful journey of love, laughter, and forgiveness unfolds.

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