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<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Salvadore Ross is a selfish, angry young man who is in love with Leah Maitland, a gentle, sensitive young woman.\u00a0 He tries to get her to go out with him but his lack of empathy convinces her that although she finds him attractive that they could never be happy together.\u00a0 When she closes her front door in his face, he angrily punches the door and breaks his hand.<\/p>\n
Forced to stay overnight at the hospital prior to the bones being set, he shares a hospital room with an old man with a respiratory infection.\u00a0 When Ross questions why the old man is in the hospital for just a cold, he tells Ross that for the elderly a cold can become pneumonia and that he would trade his cold for a broken hand gladly.\u00a0 Ross jokingly says, \u201cit\u2019s a deal.\u201d<\/p>\n
The next morning Ross wakes up and when he accidentally bangs his bad hand on the furniture, he discovers that it isn\u2019t injured anymore.\u00a0 But he also finds that he is coughing.\u00a0 He checks on his roommate and discovers that the old man has a broken hand.\u00a0 But when the old man changes his mind about the broken hand, Ross laughs at him and tells him all trades are final.<\/p>\n
Now Ross realizes that he has the ability to make deals for unbelievable exchanges between himself and other people.\u00a0 He approaches a rich old man he knows and offers to exchange his youth for the old man\u2019s age and a million dollars and a beautiful apartment.\u00a0 The old man jokingly agrees and the next morning Ross is old, rich and living in the apartment.<\/p>\n
Now Ross cleverly offers a number of younger people like the bell hop and the elevator operator a thousand dollars for a year of their lives.\u00a0 Soon Ross is young again but still very rich.\u00a0 He goes to see Leah and although she is amazed and happy for his prosperity, she tells him straight out that she could never marry a man that wasn\u2019t kind and gentle like her father.<\/p>\n
Ross goes to Leah\u2019s father and tells him that he will give him one hundred thousand dollars for something hard to describe.<\/p>\n
In the next scene Ross is driving Leah home from a date and he is courteous and affectionate and sincere.\u00a0 He goes to Leah\u2019s father and asks for her hand in marriage.\u00a0 The father refuses.\u00a0 Ross asks whether he has any compassion.\u00a0 The father says, \u201cyou bought it from me yesterday,\u201d and then shoots Ross point blank.\u00a0 The drama ends with Ross dead on the floor.<\/p>\n
Okay, so this sounds like a pretty dopey concept and I guess it is.\u00a0 But I actually liked it despite myself.\u00a0 There\u2019s some cleverness to the set up and it moves right along.\u00a0 The ending is predictable but I took it as kind of a joke ending.\u00a0 B+.<\/p>\n
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