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.

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.

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1. Jeffersonian wrote: God bless this little girl, and God bless the folks at Pixar for making her life a little fuller. June 26, 11:30 am | [comment link]

2. Cennydd wrote: Amen. June 26, 11:46 am | [comment link]

3. Chris wrote: thankfully these sorts of things happen all the time: http://www.wish.org June 26, 12:46 pm | [comment link]

4. Alice Linsley wrote: It was a kind thing for Pixar to do, but were she my child, I’d have wanted her last wish to have been to see Jesus. June 26, 3:10 pm | [comment link]

5. libraryjim wrote: Alice, who says she can’t have both? I pray that she did know Jesus as savior and friend before going on.  But it is also neat that she got to enjoy a movie memory with her family, too. June 28, 12:09 am | [comment link]

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