Pixar grants dying girl's wish to see UP

Colby Curtin was a little girl dying from a rare and agonizing form of cancer. Her last wish was to see the Pixar film Up, but she was too ill to make it to a theater. Her mother contacted Pixar, and the company flew an employee from the Bay area to Colby's house in Orange County. The employee (Pixar has so far declined to name him or otherwise comment on the story) arrived with an armful of stuffed toys, an Up poster and a pre-release copy of the DVD. He told Colby some stories about the making of the film, then sat down to watch it with the family. By the end Colby couldn't keep her eyes shut because of the pain, so her mother described what was happening onscreen.

Colby died seven hours later.


(Courtesy Metafilter. There's a minor debate in the comments there about whether this was a PR move on Pixar's part, but several commenters have pretty well demolished that idea. Pixar is just a damn classy outfit.)