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Kicking It, New School: 25 New Classic Movie Death Scenes

The best cinematic demises of the past 25 years, from ''Fargo'' and ''The Lord of the Rings'' to ''Titanic'' and ''The Departed'' (Beware: spoilers within!)
By Adam B. Vary Updated July 16, 2008 at 05:00 PM EDT
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Terminator 2: Judgment Day
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Mark Lamos, Bruce Davison, ... | In 1981, an article in The New York Times identified the ''gay cancer'' that would ultimately ravage the homosexual population. That item's appearance opens Companion…
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In 1981, an article in The New York Times identified the ''gay cancer'' that would ultimately ravage the homosexual population. That item's appearance opens Companion (the title refers to the newspaper-obituary euphemism for gay partners), a film that deftly injects the disease-of-the-week formula with a political agenda, providing its audience with the human face of AIDS. In a series of vignettes that take place over a decade, those faces, an appealing group of loosely connected Manhattanites of varying ages and socioeconomic and romantic status (some of whom get sick, some who don't), eloquently represent an era filled with fear and loss.

KLEENEX MOMENT ''Let go,'' Davison repeats, reassuring his lover as he gives in, turning the lonely process of dying into a beautiful collaboration.

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