HUNTINGTON BEACH, Calif. — Colby Curtin got her final wish.
The 10-year-old girl desperately wanted to see the new Disney-Pixar movie, “Up.” But the cancer-stricken girl was too sick to go to a theater.
Thanks to a family friend who contacted the movie studio Pixar, an employee of the Emeryville-based company arrived at Colby’s home with a DVD of the movie, The Orange County Register reported Friday. The girl died later that night.
Colby’s mother, Lisa, said she had asked her daughter whether she could hang on until the movie arrived.
“I’m ready (to die), but I’m going to wait for the movie,” she said her daughter replied.
“Up” is the animated tale of a grumpy old man who, after his wife’s death, tries to fulfill their joint dream of visiting South America by tying thousands of balloons to his house and floating away.
“When I watched it, I had really no idea about the content of the theme of the movie,” Colby’s mother said. “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.”
Because of the pain, Colby was unable to open her eyes to see the movie, so her mother described the scenes. When her mother asked whether she enjoyed it, the girl nodded, Curtin said.
