History DelicateAndSickly / Film

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* ''WesternAnimation/{{Balto}}'': Rosy is one of the children who falls ill from the epidemic in Nome, and acts as a catalyst for Balto to strive to get the medicine.
* In the second half of ''WesternAnimation/SongOfTheSea'', Saoirse's health starts to fade the longer she goes without her [[SelkiesAndWereseals selkie coat]]. She gradually becomes so weak that she's on the brink of dying [[spoiler:before she's finally reunited with her coat, which enables her to sing the Song of the Sea and restores her health in the process]].
* Downplayed in ''WesternAnimation/TurningRed'': one of Meilin Lee's classmates has a glucose-monitor patch on her arm, indicating she is an insulin-dependent diabetic. However, she appears healthy, attends a regular school and has a normal social life, all indications that her diabetes is well-controlled.

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* ''Film/AssaultOnWallStreet'': Jim's wife Rosie is recovering from a near-fatal brain tumor and requires expensive medication, forcing him to work around the clock to provide for her. This is also why he tries his darndest to keep their dire financial situation hidden from her. When she does find out, [[spoiler:it drives her to kill herself.]]

* Grace in ''Film/Excision2012''. Her cystic fibrosis is the main reason why her sister Pauline wants to become a surgeon, [[spoiler:which in turn gets Grace and another girl killed as Pauline tries to perform a lung transplant]].

* ''Film/TheHandThatRocksTheCradle'': Claire (Annabella Sciorra) is an adult Ill Girl who suffers of chronic asthma. [[spoiler:And Payton (Rebecca De Monray), the CuteAndPsycho VillainProtagonist, uses said illness to her advantage... among ''other'' things. She still loses in the end.]]

* ''Film/MercenariesFromHongKong'' has the young daughter of Sergeant Lei who is suffering from cancer, and only have months to live unless she had a transplant surgery in the United States which Lei cannot afford (hence the reason why Lei is willing to accept a SuicideMission for the money).
* Satine from ''Film/MoulinRouge,'' as mentioned above. An unusual example in that she remains ignorant of her condition until 2/3 of the way through the movie, and then tries to keep it a secret from everyone until the last possibly second. (Everyone but [[LoveInterest Christian]], [[BigBad the Duke]], [[TheDragon the Duke's man Warner]] and possibly Toulouse and the Narcoleptic Argentinian know she's doomed.)

* ''Film/OctoberSky'' features a kind and encouraging schoolteacher, Miss Riley, who is revealed to suffer from Hodgkin's Disease during the third act of the film, giving the Rocket Boys that extra emotional push to pull off their last, climactic, rocket launch. Seeing as how ''October Sky'' was based off of the autobiography ''Rocket Boys'' (complete with the actual aforementioned Ill Girl), that automatically makes this trope into TruthInTelevision.
* ''Film/{{Ondine}}'': Annie needs a new kidney, and uses a wheelchair, though she can walk (presumably she's easily tired). She's a cute, very sweet young girl who doesn't seem affected by this much.
* ''Film/RepoTheGeneticOpera'' has two of these as various points -- Marni, who died before the film started, and her daughter Shilo, who inherited the disease. [[spoiler:Until it turns out that she's not really ill -- her father was poisoning her so she would have to stay with him.]]
* In Creator/AkiraKurosawa film ''[[Film/{{Scandal 1950}} Scandal]]'', Ichiro is convinced to hire third-rate attorney Hiruta as his lawyer after meeting Hiruta's sweet, innocent daughter Masako, who is bedridden and dying of pneumonia. Hiruta for his part is driven to betray Ichiro so he can get money to take care of Masako.

* In Creator/MNightShyamalan's film ''Film/TheSixthSense'', Kyra, a chronically-ill girl that visits Cole after she dies, was this during her lifetime, for a reason: [[spoiler: her sickness was being prolonged by her mother, who was implied to be suffering from Munchausen's Syndrome by Proxy, craving the attention that having a sick daughter gave her. She poisoned Kyra with a household cleaning agent, and was beginning to do the same to her little sister following her death.]]

* Jamie in ''Film/AWalkToRemember''. She has leukemia and found out when she was little. She doesn't want anyone to treat her differently, which is why she doesn't tell anyone at school. Or Landon, because she doesn't want him to be heartbroken if he falls in love with her.

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* [[Film/{{Tombstone}} Doc Holliday]] and his friends were aware of his terminal condition (and the audience was reminded with his IncurableCoughOfDeath,) but it was less often cause for depression than morbid jokes and badassery. He also doubles as a RealLife example.
* ''Film/UntamedHeart'': Adam is established as having a weak heart from [[AMinorKidroduction when we see him as a child]], though when he's an adult, Caroline ends up [[RescueRomance falling in love with him after he saves her from being raped]]. [[spoiler:At the end, he eventually dies of that weak heart]].

* In the second half of ''WesternAnimation/SongOfTheSea'', Saoirse's health starts to fade the longer she goes without her [[SelkiesAndWereseals selkie coat]]. She gradually becomes so weak that she's on the brink of dying [[spoiler:before she's finally reunited with her coat, which not only enables her to sing the Song of the Sea but also restores her health]].

* Grace in ''Film/{{Excision}}''. Her cystic fibrosis is the main reason why her sister Pauline wants to become a surgeon, [[spoiler:which in turn gets Grace and another girl killed as Pauline tries to perform a lung transplant]].

* The latter half of ''WesternAnimation/SongOfTheSea'' becomes this when Saoirse, due to being [[HalfHumanHybrid half-human half-Selkie]], starts growing terminally ill because [[spoiler:she does not have her white coat which all Selkies need to stay alive and talk verbally, thus Ben has to help her find it before she dies.]]

%%* The Sandman's daughter in ''Film/SpiderMan3''.

* ''Film/TheKillerThatStalkedNewYork'', a 1950 film {{Very Loosely Based|OnATrueStory}} on the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1947_New_York_City_smallpox_outbreak 1947 New York City smallpox outbreak]], has Walda, a six-year-old with pertussis who contracts smallpox from PatientZero Sheila Bennet. Dr. Wood takes it upon himself to check in on her every night to calm her mother.

* ''Film/RepoTheGeneticOpera'' has two of these as various points - Marni, who died before the film started, and her daughter Shilo, who inherited the disease. [[spoiler:Until it turns out that she's not really ill--her father was poisoning her so she would have to stay with him.]]

* In ''Film/TheConstantNymph'', Tessa suffers from severe stitches and fainting spells caused by running or too much emotional stress...and when you're 14 and in love with a family friend who's much older, you have lots of stress.

* Just like [[WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries her animated counterpart]], Nora Fries, Mr. Freeze's wife, suffers from a rare disease, [=MacGregor=]'s Syndrome; she would be kept into cryostasis by Mr. Freeze until he discovers a cure. Alfred also suffers from the same disease, but his was in Stage 1, which is curable, while Nora's was in an advanced stage.

* The latter half of ''WesternAnimation/SongOfTheSea'' becomes this when Saoirse, due to being [[HalfHumanHybrid half-human half-Selkie]], starts growing terminally ill because [[spoiler:she does not have her white coat which all Selkies need to stay alive and talk verbally, thus Ben has to help her find it before she dies.]]

* The plot of ''WesternAnimation/TheSecretOfNIMH'' revolves around Ms. Brisby trying to take care of her son Timmy, who has pneumonia.

* Alva in ''Film/ThisPropertyIsCondemmed''. This one is rathe subtle, but apart from an occasional cough, you wouldn't know that there was anything much wrong with Alva, but when Owen finds out that Alva has died of TB in the final reel, it all makes sense. Alva was wild and headstrong ''because she knew she was likely to die!'' So the secondary meaning of the title is explained, Alvafeels like everybody's property, but Film/ThisPropertyIsCondemmed.

* Jamie in ''Film/AWalkToRemember''. [[spoiler:She has leukemia and found out when she was little. She doesn't want anyone to treat her differently, which is why she doesn't tell anyone at school. Or Landon, because she doesn't want him to be heartbroken if he falls in love with her]]
---> '''Jamie:''' I told you not to fall in love with me. [[spoiler:Before she tells him about her cancer]]

* Nux, the sickly War Boy in "Film/MadMaxFuryRoad", appears to be suffering from leukemia or lymphoma; he has tumors on his neck, gets fevers at night, and needs blood transfusions in order to even stand.

* In ''Film/ConAir'', Poe's BlackBestFriend Baby-O is diabetic. One of the reasons Poe refused to leave the plane was getting the poor guy's insulin.