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 ..
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: