The plot of "She Lives!" is very, very similar to "Love Story" in that it's about college students who fall in love...and the lady comes down with a terminal illness. But, unlike "Love Story" there is hope in this film that she MIGHT not die.
I can barely remember seeing "Love Story" but can say that with "She Lives!" I had a hard time sticking with it because I didn't like the couple and really didn't care if she lived or died! The editing was terrible--with choppy bits of Jim Croce's "Time in a Bottle" clumsily dropped into the film. Some of the camera-work was blurry and looked cheap. And, the acting, at times, was silly--with some terrible overacting. A few scenes which show this was the screaming scene which was unintentionally funny as well as when she later said she felt fine and only seconds later she was on the ground...practically dying. So, aside from the writing, acting and filmmaking the film wasn't bad...though I guess that really doesn't leave much, does it? Oh, and I forgot to mention that the ending was VERY abrupt and incomplete.
In retrospect, with a title like "She Lives!", I wish it had been a horror movie.
