By the time 'Up' hit the theatres, Colby Curtin was rapidly losing her battle with cancer and was too sick to go to the cinema. So the studio came to her, sending an employee with a DVD, stuffed characters, and memorabilia, for a private screening at home. She died later that night.
Her mother said one of the memorabilia left by the Pixar employee was an 'adventure book' based on a scrapbook that, in the movie, is kept by the [late] wife of the main character [who floats his house away with balloons to take the trip he never managed to make when she was alive].
'I’ll have to fill those adventures in for her,' Lisa Curtin said of her daughter.
At least it gave them some comfort, and a little girl precious moments of happiness. The best thing of all is that the news didn't come from Pixar; they haven't even commented. It wasn't some self-promoting gimmick, it was a real gesture towards a family stricken by the impending death of a young girl.
That's class.
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