When You Remember Me
Appearance
When You Remember Me | |
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Genre | Biography Drama |
Written by | Jerry McNeely Cynthia Whitcomb |
Directed by | Harry Winer |
Starring | Fred Savage Kevin Spacey Ellen Burstyn |
Music by | J. Peter Robinson Yanni |
Country of origin | United States |
Original language | English |
Production | |
Executive producers | David L. Wolper Bernard Sofronski |
Producer | Vahan Moosekian |
Cinematography | Johnny E. Jensen |
Editor | Paul Rubell |
Running time | 91 minutes |
Production companies | Warner Bros. Television David L. Wolper Productions |
Original release | |
Network | ABC |
Release | October 7, 1990 |
When You Remember Me is a 1990 American made-for-television biographical drama film directed by Harry Winer and starring Fred Savage, Kevin Spacey, and Ellen Burstyn. It is based on the life of Michael Patrick Smith, a young man who filed a lawsuit in the early '70s that led to improved conditions for nursing home patients nationwide.[1]
Plot
[edit]Mike Mills is a teen with muscular dystrophy, whose destitute single mother placed him in a state nursing home, where he contends with being a young person in the clinic and with an abusive head nurse, while Wade Blank started ADAPT, a grassroots national disability rights group in Denver in the 1980s.
Cast
[edit]- Fred Savage as Mike Mills
- Kevin Spacey as Wade Blank
- Ellen Burstyn as Nurse Cooder
- Richard Jenkins as Vaughan
- Dwier Brown as John Harlen
- Lee Garlington as Joanne
- Ving Rhames as Leon
- Dean Norris as Bill
References
[edit]- ^ "Historical Newspapers from 1700s-2000s". 20 May 2024.
External links
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