Uplifting

If your eyes don't water up after hearing this story, there's something very wrong with you.

Source: http://www.ocregister.com/articles/pixar-up-movie-2468059-home-show

HUNTINGTON BEACH Colby Curtin, a 10-year-old with a rare form of cancer, was staying alive for one thing a movie.

From the minute Colby saw the previews to the Disney-Pixar movie Up, she was desperate to see it. Colby had been diagnosed with vascular cancer about three years ago, said her mother, Lisa Curtin, and at the beginning of this month it became apparent that she would die soon and was too ill to be moved to a theater to see the film.

On April 28, Colby went to see the Dream Works 3-D movie "Monsters Vs. Aliens" but was impressed by the previews to "Up."

It was from then on, she said, I have to see that movie. It is so cool, Lynch said.

Two days later Colbys health began to worsen. On June 4 her mother asked a hospice company to bring a wheelchair for Colby so she could visit a theater to see "Up." However, the weekend went by and the wheelchair was not delivered, Lisa Curtin said.

By June 9, Colby could no longer be transported to a theater and her family feared she would die without having seen the movie.

At that point, Orum-Moore, who desperately wanted Colby to get her last wish, began to cold-call Pixar and Disney to see if someone could help. Pixar officials listened to Colbys story and agreed to send someone to Colbys house the next day with a DVD of "Up," Orum-Moore recalled.

She immediately called Lisa Curtin, who told Colby.

Do you think you can hang on? Colbys mother said.

I'm ready (to die), but I'm going to wait for the movie, the girl replied.

At about 12:30 p.m. the Pixar employee came to the Curtins home with the DVD. Colby couldn't see the screen because the pain kept her eyes closed so her mother gave her a play-by-play of the film. At the end of the film, the mother asked if her daughter enjoyed the movie and Colby nodded yes, Lisa Curtin said.

Colby died with her mom and dad nearby at 9:20 p.m.

"When I watched it, I had really no idea about the content of the theme of the movie", said Curtin, 46. "I just know that word Up and all of the balloons and I swear to you, for me it meant that (Colby) was going to go up. Up to heaven."