Pixar Grants Last Wish

Posted by Miss Cellania in Baby & Kids, Movies & SciFi on June 19, 2009 at 12:00 pm


10-year-old Colby Curtin of Huntington Beach, California had been anxiously looking forward to the movie Up since she saw the first previews. Colby battled vascular cancer for three years, and when the movie was released, she was too sick to go to the theater.

After a family friend made frantic calls to Pixar to help grant Colby her dying wish, Pixar came to the rescue.

The company flew an employee with a DVD of Up, which is only in theaters, to the Curtins’ Huntington Beach home on June 10 for a private viewing of the movie.

The animated movie begins with scenes showing the evolution of a relationship between a husband and wife. After losing his wife in old age, the now grumpy man deals with his loss by attaching thousands of balloons to his house, flying into the sky, and going on an adventure with a little boy.

Colby died about seven hours after seeing the film.

Be warned, reading the entire story will make you cry. Pixar declined to make a statement about Colby or the employee who visited her. Link -via Boing Boing

(image credit: Carole Lynch)


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20 comments to "Pixar Grants Last Wish"

  1. horned_one24
    June 19th, 2009 at 1:07 pm

    This blows my mind if its true. I have my doubts though.

  2. LisaL
    June 19th, 2009 at 1:13 pm

    Oh man.... I'm sitting here with tears just rolling down my face. Poor girl :( Can't even imagine going through something like that and hope I never will.

  3. Johnny Cat
    June 19th, 2009 at 1:24 pm

    Well it's incredibly sad that the first commenter here has to raise the doubt flag. There's no words for how awesome Pixar is for doing this. Cheers.

  4. SydneyClaire
    June 19th, 2009 at 1:51 pm

    I'm so glad Pixar made that little girl's last wish come true.

  5. LV
    June 19th, 2009 at 1:52 pm

    Every now and again compassionate people raise my view (if but for a moment) of humanity.

  6. Dave
    June 19th, 2009 at 2:20 pm

    Great story. Pixar is made up of some great people. I only hope Colby wasn't as disappointed in the movie as my family and I were.

  7. Flux
    June 19th, 2009 at 3:22 pm

    If I was a 10yr old I might have a last request like that.
    Being older though... I just hope (when my time comes... you know... like a billion years from now. *cough* >_>) I can somehow give the Hospital the slip and find some quiet isolated rocky beach, or wooded glade to just reflect on life and planet earth, and enjoy it all one last time.
    Man how depressing. Awesome of Pixar though. *sigh* think I go need to eat a cookie now.

  8. lucky
    June 19th, 2009 at 3:47 pm

    ugh...i'm trying to blame the tears rolling down my face on the wasabi peas i'm eating...story so sad...

  9. Raúl
    June 19th, 2009 at 3:57 pm

    Me hicieron lagrimear con esta historia... / You made me cry a little with that story...

  10. lameramera
    June 19th, 2009 at 4:17 pm

    curse you tear jerkers!

  11. Dandy
    June 19th, 2009 at 4:52 pm

    I think it's a GREAT story!!!

    YAY PIXAR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! You guys ROCK!!!

  12. Ali S.
    June 19th, 2009 at 5:26 pm

    :( Man, good on Pixar. They are also sensible enough/human enough not to go about making a big PR thing about this. I got something in my eye...pardon me.

  13. The Other Parker
    June 20th, 2009 at 11:55 am

    If it were any other company, I might share horned_one24's doubts. But this completely jibes with other stories I've heard about unexpected kindness from Pixar. I have nothing but respect for the company: they make consistently amazing movies, and they have a heart too.

    Here's another story that comes to mind:
    http://www.metafilter.com/72958/Wowe-Malthusian-Fear-Mongering-Can-Be- Annoying#2167675

  14. ted
    June 20th, 2009 at 12:12 pm

    "Colby died about seven hours after seeing the film." - Sounds like a sequel to The Ring.

    If she was seven hours away from death, though, would she have been in any state to comprehend the movie? I'm thinking painkillers and such.

  15. edhel_espyn
    June 20th, 2009 at 12:36 pm

    ^ Somehow, I feel it doesn't matter if she comprehended the movie or not... around that time, what would've mattered would be that a child had her one wish granted before she died and the simple kindness that went on in realizing that wish.

  16. Pukiman
    June 20th, 2009 at 12:42 pm

    At 10 years old...her life hasnt even started yet...its unfair...its just not right,well she had her one wish before she died...

  17. D Bozko
    June 20th, 2009 at 1:21 pm

    I'm a cynic about most things but I don't have any doubts about the veracity of this story. PIXAR is one class act.

  18. free internet games for kids
    June 21st, 2009 at 10:01 pm

    re: ted
    Yeah... the article did say she actually already couldn't see the screen because the pain kept her eyes closed. But I think somehow she knew that her wish came through and that there were people who helped her to have her wish granted. I think being able to experience that with loved ones was probably her greater wish.

  19. Savannahinalaska99835
    June 22nd, 2009 at 12:00 pm

    soooo sad im sure that if there is a heven that she is looking down on us crying now :(

  20. Sam Saturday
    June 22nd, 2009 at 2:13 pm

    The fact that Pixar refuses to talk about it proves that they only did this out of simple human decency.

    Pixar makes some great movies - true classics. And now we find out that they are just as classy as their films. Good for them.


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