Story about Marvin's Room / 一切从心开始 / 亲亲环姊妹 / 马文的房间
A leukemia patient attempts to end a 20-year feud with her sister to get her bone marrow. Estranged ...
A leukemia patient attempts to end a 20-year feud with her sister to get her bone marrow.
Estranged since their father's firt stroke some 17 year earlier, Lee and Bessie lead separate lives in separate states. Lee's son, Hank, finds himself committed to a mental intitution after setting fire to his mother's house. His younger brother, Charlie, seems unfazed by his brother's eccentricities or his mother's seeming disinterest. When Lee comes to the asylum to spring Hank for a week in Florida so that he can be tested as a possible bone marrow donor for Bessie, Hank is incredulous. "I didn't even know you had a sister," he says. "Remember, every Christmas, when I used to say 'Well, looks like Aunt Bessie didn't send us a card again this year?'" "Oh yeah," Hank says. Meanwhile, Marvin, the two women's bedridden father, has "been dying for the past twenty year." "He's doing it real slow so I don't miss anything," Bessie tells Dr. Wally. In Bessie's regular doctor's absence, it has fallen to Dr. Wally to inform Bessie that she has leukemia and will die without a bone marrow ...
