Nicholas' Gift
- IMDb link: 0143767
- IMDb rating: 6.9 (501 votes) Search
- Genres: Drama
- Director: Robert Markowitz
- Cast: Jamie Lee Curtis, Alan Bates, Hallie Eisenberg, Gene Wexler and others
- Release date: 26 Apr 1998
- Release year: 1998
- Runtime: 90 minutes
- Country: Italy, United States
- Keywords: italy, organ donation, punctuation in title, apostrophe in title, family relationships, death of child, based on true story, character name in title
Plot
Storyline
While on vacation in Italy, the Greens' rental car is attacked and their young son, Nicholas, is shot. In the aftermath and the media furor, the choices the Greens make, change not only the life of Angelo, a boy who needs a heart transplant, but also Italian opinions on organ donation.
In this movie, a family from the U.S. travels to Italy with their young son, Nicholas, and young daughter. Nicholas is fascinated about the story of Penelope and Greek mythology. Throughout the trip, he makes inferences about death. Is there a heaven? How do the dead people get across the river? But then on Highway 2, bandits shoot and injure Nicholas, and he becomes brain dead. The parents decide to donate his organs, which save seven other patients throughout Italy, which makes him the hero he always dreamed to be.
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