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Where to Watch Something to Live for: The Alison Gertz Story (1992) in the UK

1992
1h 40m
6.4IMDb

Drama

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What it's about

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.

Cast and crew

Director: Tom McLoughlin
Writer: Deborah Joy LeVine
Starring: Molly Ringwald, Lee Grant, Perry King

Details

Release date: Mar 29, 1992
Language: English
Country: United States
Awards: 1 nomination