Something to Live For: The Alison Gertz Story

– 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 (1992)

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

Producing Country:
USA
Genre:
Release Date:

29 Mar 1992

Language:

English

Director:

Tom McLoughlin

Writer:

Deborah Joy LeVine

Main Actors:

Molly Ringwald, Lee Grant, Perry King, Roxana Zal

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:

Grossbart/Barnett Productions

Ratings:
Internet Movie Database:
6.6/10