Movie featuring Sunshine on My Shoulders?

aerie

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Jun 21, 1999, 3:00:00 AM6/21/99

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The TV movie was indeed called "Sunshine". It was based on the true story
of Jacquelyn Helton, who died of bone cancer. John's music was played
throughout. There also was a tv show of the same name, that picked up after
the movie ended

However, Sunshine was actually in another movie that no one seems to have
ever seen. John was asked to write a song for a movie, and in his words,
"it had to do with two people who were going to die, and they knew they were
going to die, so this is how they spent their last day together. In a lot
of the things they did, they were celebrating: enjoying being with each
other and making love, and going to the beach and laughing and dancing in
the waves. And yet there was this overriding sense of sadness through it
all. The song Sunshine was written for the scene where they were laughing
and dancing in the water".

Does anyone know the name of this film and if it was ever released?

Ann

Syningom wrote in message <19990621123223...@ng-fp1.aol.com>...
>Hi Titanic ! I thought about his movie just the other day ! I think that it
was
>called "Sunshine", but am not definite.It was about a man and his daughter,
and
>I believe that the mother had died. The dad played the guitar I think, and
>maybe they lived with the grandfather.The song " Mr. Bojangles" was also
>used.This was probably on T.V. in the early-mid 70's.Can anybody else add
more
>info to this ?~Joy

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"...to live on the land, we must learn from the sea...."

Ann Schnitz, Ph.D.
Newark, DE

CarolMed

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Jun 22, 1999, 3:00:00 AM6/22/99

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Wait; do my eyes deceive me? Ann Schnitz actually ASKING a question? That
wonderful, witty, smart, font of knowledge asking a question?

Anyway, Sunshine, the TV movie with Cliff De Young, was just an incredible
experience. I wanted to live in that movie; without the infidelity, of
course. Does anyone remember that part????
LOL

Carol

TBird

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Jun 22, 1999, 3:00:00 AM6/22/99

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It was an incredible experience :) I was lucky enough this past winter to
run across the soundtrack LP at our local used music store and picked it up
for a mere $2!

Here is the description of the movie as stated on the back of the LP jacket:
*********************************************
Lyn Helton is dead. Her story, telling what it's like to die, what it's like
to leave a husband and daughter behind to try to squeeze every ounce of life
and love and happiness into a sadly short periof of time, is real. It
happened. "Sunshine" is drawn closely from that story.

We live in a world all to frighteningly real. Our lives are real, our fears
sadly more real than mere paranoia. We can't indulge our naivete, we can't
persist in provincialism, or chauvinism, or schoolboy avoidance of what we
have to be--to be human. We are a wiser people, and older people, a more
realistic people. And though we slip back every once in a great while to the
elegant fantasy of a surrealistic flick, or a fantasy landscape of the Old
West as viewed by John Wayne, we demand greater realism, more urgency, solid
relevance in our film fare.

The makers of "Sunshine" seemed to know the simple truth of that need, and
they have produced a film of surpassing beauty and importance of our times.

Lyn Helton died at the age of twenty from a rare form of bone cancer called
osteogenic sarcoma. She left behind a husband, a two year old daughter, and
a journal of tape recordings. A journal that told what it was to be young,
and a mother, and in love, and dying.

"I tried to write a poem for Jenny, but all I could think of-the only word
beautiful enough was 'beautiful sunshine'."

"Sunshine" is a love story. A rather unusual love story chronicled on tape,
on film, and now on a record as a bequest to those she loved. To Jenny,
motherless at the age of two because lyn preferred stark reality to a
drugged existence. To her husband, wifeless and pained because lyn chose to
live the brief love they shared satiated with life rather than cramped with
anguish. They all lived her brief life filled with loving, laughing and
crying.

"Sunshine" is poignant, powerful and touching. Lyn Helton has, indeed, left
a legacy to her daughter.

by Michele DiGrazia

*******************************

A little bit of trivia here........what other songs by JD were written/used
in this movie?

Peace,
Theresa

LOU

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Jun 22, 1999, 3:00:00 AM6/22/99

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I saw this movie on TV a few years ago,
so it was made and released, but I just can't remember the name of
it????? sorry !!!!! The one where two people knew that that they were
going to die!!!! it was a good movie.....

LuLu