NSP3685: End-of-Life Nursing Care: Films

Based on the best selling autobiography by Irish expat Frank McCourt, Angela's Ashes follows the experiences of young Frankie and his family as they try against all odds to escape the poverty endemic in the slums of pre-war Limerick. The film opens with the family in Brooklyn, but following the death of one of Frankie's siblings, they return home, only to find the situation there even worse.

A paramedic haunted by the ghosts of people he couldn't save struggles to stay sane while dealing with the madness of New York City's Hell's Kitchen in the early 1990s.

After a successful gay lawyer is fired from his prestigious law firm due to the fact that he has AIDS, he teams up with an attorney to sue the partners for discrimination.

Oscar-winning examination of a mother-daughter relationship spanning 30 years. The story focuses on the tempestuous relationship between Aurora Greenway and her rebellious but devoted daughter, Emma. Against her mother's wishes, Emma marries a college professor with limited potential and then adds insult to injury by making the age-conscious Aurora a grandmother three times over.

This HBO Films presentation chronicles the personal awakening of a longtime literary scholar (played by two-time Oscar-winner Emma Thompson), who learns the importance of simple human kindness when faced with the most daunting of crises: a diagnosis of advanced cancer.