Something to Live For: The Alison Gertz Story

Name: Something to Live For: The Alison Gertz Story
Genre: Drama
Released: 1992-03-29
Duration: 1 h 40 min
Rating: 6.60
Cast: Roxana Zal, Molly Ringwald, Lee Grant, Perry King

– An AIDS-stricken woman becomes a leader in the struggle to educate people about the disease and its ..

Type:

Movie

Rating:

6.60 / 10

Duration:

One Hour and 40 Minutes

Release Year:

1992

Something to Live For: The Alison Gertz Story — Something to Live for: The Alison Gertz Story (1992)

An AIDS-stricken woman becomes a leader in the struggle to educate people about the disease and its prevention.

Producing Country:

USA

Genre:

Drama

Release Date:

29 Mar 1992

Language:

English

Directed by:

Tom McLoughlin

Story Written By:

Deborah Joy LeVine

Main Actors:

Roxana Zal, Molly Ringwald, Lee Grant, Perry King

Plot:

Based on the true-life story of one young, pretty, intelligent, middle-class and HIV/AIDS stricken Alison (Ali) Gertz. Molly Ringwald plays the titular character who has to come to terms with her illness and the lives affected from all-sides, who, also having to come to terms with a new, modern disease and the dealings of ignorance that was the nineteen-eighties. This is Alison Gertz's story via her teachings of her condition to a world still waking-up to this social stigma and of the courage, sadness and love that her short life touched.

Awards:

1 nomination.

Production Company:

Barnett Productions, Grossbart

Ratings:

Internet Movie Database:

6.6/10