When You Remember Me

When You Remember Me (1990)

Fact-based story of Mike Mills, a teen with muscular dystrophy, who is placed in a state nursing home by his destitute single mother. There he must contend with being the only young person in the clinic and with an abusive head nurse.

Date of release
1990-10-07
TMDB
6.1 / 10 (13)
Runtime
1h 31m
Genres
Drama, TV Movie
Director
Harry Winer

Casting

Interesting facts

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. The film premiered on ABC on October 7, 1990. The screenplay is based on a story featured in Reader's Digest from writer Rena Dictor LeBlanc, and tells the story of Michael Patrick Smith, a young man who filed a lawsuit in the early 1970s that led to improved conditions for nursing home patients nationwide.

Production

Savage relayed how he worked with a therapist who works with people who have muscular dystrophy, and "she helped me a lot in getting prepared for this". He noted that "you have to learn how to do certain movements and motions, because the character has Duchenne's muscular dystrophy, so it's not a case of teaching someone how to portray 'muscular dystrophy', each type immobilizes a specific part of the body, so it was really hard to do".

Executive producer Bernard Sofronski said they had to portray Michael Patrick Smith a "few years younger than he was because we wanted Fred Savage to play the role ... the real Michael entered the home around age 12 and lived longer than we show". Sofronski stated the "events that took place in the home, they are absolutely true as dramatized ...

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