Throughout time love has been one of the best stories to tell. No matter where or when the events take place the characters often have many common factors, even stories that seem very different from each other, frequently are more similar than not. While watching these, the similarities in the basic idea of the movie are straightforward, The Other Sister directed by Garry Marshall in 1999 and Listen To Your Heart directed by Matt Thompson in 2010, also share a deeper meaning than what meets the eye.
The Other Sister, a unique romance involving a girl, Carla Tate, who has the desire to become an independent woman. Recently returning home from a special needs boarding school. Carla's family has no hope she will be self-sufficient, her mother
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He is sure she will call, but she never does, then one day, weeks later, she comes back into the cafe where his friend greets her, trying to find out why she didn't call. He finds out Ariana is deaf and this is the reason why his friend had not heard from her. Ariana's mother is very overbearing, and her mother maintains complete control over Arian's life. As a child of five, Ariana lost her hearing, from complications of contracting meningitis from her father, who did not survive the illness. Since the loss of her hearing, Ariana, lives the life her mother tells her to, instead of being the person she longs to be. Ariana and Danny begin a great romance, she hides him from her well-to-do family. The two fall deeply in love, but Sara's mother discovers the affair, she puts an immediate stop to the relationship. After time has passed and they are still apart, Danny is still trying to win Ariana back, he finds out he has an extremely aggressive form of cancer, he will not be alive long, this tragic news lead Ariana back to Danny. Ariana tells her mother that she will no longer do as she is told, but will act as she wishes and there are two matters on the top of this list, Danny and having the surgery to correct