Long before Terri Schiavo
Long before Terri Schiavo would have been finished, there was a movie about the relationship between two sisters for a long time. The story is not that much different but the characters are still there and the developments happening in their lives often seem hidden. It's very hard to understand why, maybe they were really struggling with the acceptability of the relationship. You can try to watch this movie in many different ways: as a romantic comedy, as a comedy of the film
Long before Terri Schiavo's transformation from a young-adult to the tomboyish'real' Mary, the roles did not seem to work out. But what happened to the character of Mary? The script seemed to blame her for the whole situation. Some of the scenes in this film seem to have been intended to be allegory, but in reality they are just crude descriptions of a woman who is in far more danger of falling to the earth than she is