Published: 11:55 GMT, 27 October 2025 | Updated: 11:55 GMT, 27 October 2025

A doctor who cared for her father through his final years with dementia has blasted Hollywood superstar George Clooney for what she calls a 'dangerous' and 'irresponsible' new film that risks encouraging vulnerable people to end their lives.

Dr Ramona Coelho, a family physician from Ontario, Canada, said Clooney's upcoming movie In Love — about a man with early-onset Alzheimer's who travels to Switzerland for an assisted suicide — will 'romanticize death' and trigger a 'suicide contagion' among people with dementia.

'Turning assisted suicide into a Hollywood love story is dangerous,' Coelho told the Daily Mail in an exclusive interview.

'It romanticizes death for people who are vulnerable and afraid.'

Clooney, 64, will star in In Love, based on Amy Bloom's 2022 memoir In Love: A Memoir of Love and Loss.

The story follows Connecticut couple Bloom and her husband Brian Ameche, an architect diagnosed with early-onset Alzheimer's in his mid-60s. Refusing to face the decline, he chose to die 'standing tall, not on his knees' at the Swiss euthanasia clinic Dignitas.

Clooney plays Ameche, with Annette Bening as Bloom. Filming begins in New England next month.

To many, it's a love story about dignity and choice.

Actors George Clooney and Annette Bening will star as the husband and wife couple grappling with an Alzheimer's diagnose