Plot: Sixteen year old Dylan Jameison of Marcus Hook, Pennsylvania, is terminally ill with cancerous tumors spreading throughout his body. A confirmed atheist, Dylan does not believe in such concepts as heaven, hell or an afterlife. Receipt of a long prepared early eighteenth birthday present and increasing seemingly real life visions he has of his deceased father Earl Jameison make Dylan at least examine these beliefs. Although she wants him to have as happy and comfortable a life as possible, Dylan's caring widowed mother Karen Jameison still has problems seeing him as anything but her sixteen year old son, and as such has difficulties, for example, watching him openly and happily smoke medically prescribed marijuana to relieve the nausea associated with the radiation treatments. The United Wish Givers identifies Dylan as a recipient of their program, his desired wish which the organization has arranged to be granted being to go fishing - a cherished pastime he did with Earl - with Philadelphia Eagle Jason O'Malley, his longtime favorite football player. After a last minute powwow with his best friends Ricky and Slap, Dylan throws Karen, Jason, and Madelene the United Wish Givers representative for a loop when, at the arranged press conference live on air, he announces that he has changed his mind about the wish he wants granted for what is truly in his heart: a weekend alone with supermodel Nikki Sinclair. Behind the glamorous photos and runway appearances, Nikki, unknown to Dylan, is a troubled young woman. Nikki's agent Arlene wants Nikki at least to make a short visit with Dylan as good PR to overcome some recently bad and potentially snowballing publicity. Nikki is mentally and emotionally ill-prepared even for this short visit let alone what Dylan really wants, it which he doggedly pursues in his dying days. Dylan gets some direct or indirect help from other good Samaritans who want Dylan to have those happy final days, including Jason, Dylan's oncologist Dr. Emerson, and a seemingly all knowing New Yorker named Babba which if Dylan has his way means his ultimate final wish on Earth actually happening.
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