She Lives!


She Lives is a 1973 madefortelevision movie about a young couple, Andy and Pam played by Desi Arnaz, Jr. and Season Hubley who meet after Andy places a singles ad in his college newspaper. Pam advises him to put a response to her letter in the Whos Next album at a local record store. He does and they meet. They are instantly attracted to each other and in the next scene they are living together. Andy has to overcome the objections of his father and brother his mother having died a year earlier and he and Pam get jobs and live in her studio apartment. They are happy until Andy discovers a lump in Pams neck. They go for tests and find out Pam has Hodgkins Disease. They are devastated and Pam goes to a therapist to help cope with the sad news. Pam considers suicide, but Andy talks her out of it by convincing her that they will fight. They find a doctor who gives Pam experimental treatments that almost kill her. They travel to San Francisco to meet with another doctor. At first, he wont take Pams case but eventually he is swayed by Andys tearful appeal. He turns out to be the doctor who gets Pams disease into remission. As the young lovers run throughout the streets of San Francisco celebrating the news they come upon a group of girls playing hopscotch. Andy borrows the chalk from one of them and the girl tells him, Okay, but dont break it. He responds, I will never break anything as long as I live. He writes She Lives in chalk and runs through the streets shouting it. He turns and there is Pam, the girl he loves. As the movie ends, Jim Croces Time in a Bottle plays over the credits.



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