One Last Thing

Dylan Jameison may be a 16-year-old dying of cancer,
but he manages to have a shot at doing something most men only can ever
dream of doing, however long they live to be.

Dylan, who lives in the industrial outskirts of Philly, is
provided a last wish by a charitable organization. The wish
originally turns out to be a fishing weekend with his football
hero Jason O’Malley. How sweet. How nice. How totally unrealistic.

Faced with death, Dylan breaks out into total honesty. Despite all the news
of female sexual predators deflowering innocent teenage boys, the fact of the
matter is that male adolescents yearn, nay live to seduced by an older woman.

And Dylan is no different. Thus his wish is to spend some quality time with
the object of his affections, Nikki Sinclair, a voluptuous babe whose poster
adorns his bedroom wall.

With his friends Dylan heads off to New York, much to the chagrin of his mother.
On this escapade to the Big Apple we face a gamut of emotions — which the
film does an admirable job of balancing — mixing the feelings of an average
teenager with the ever-encroaching shadow of death.

The top-notch acting performances of Michael Angarano, Cynthia Nixon and Ethan Hawke as Dylan’s father make the DVD worth viewing for this reason alone.