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Not only do they make great movies, but they do good deeds.

HUNTINGTON BEACH – Colby Curtin, a 10-year-old with a rare form of cancer, was staying alive for one thing -- a movie.

From the minute Colby saw the previews to the Disney-Pixar movie Up, she was desperate to see it. Colby had been diagnosed with vascular cancer about three years ago, said her mother, Lisa Curtin, and at the beginning of this month it became apparent that she would die soon and was too ill to be moved to a theater to see the film.

After a family friend made frantic calls to Pixar to help grant Colby her dying wish, Pixar came to the rescue.

The company flew an employee with a DVD of Up, which is only in theaters, to the Curtins’ Huntington Beach home on June 10 for a private viewing of the movie.
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Colby died about seven hours after seeing the film.

Up was a great movie -- I saw it last week. This story, and that movie, brought a little tear to my eye.

Posted by Jake on 06/22/09 @ 11:07 PM
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2 Comments

Barney Lerten said on 06/23/09 @ 11:19 AM:
Wow. Goodwill is its own PR. Here and in Heaven. What a good thing to do.

amanda said on 06/30/09 @ 09:14 PM:
aw so sad

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