Prima del tramonto

Prima del tramonto (1990)

When You Remember Me

Un giovane affetto da distrofia muscolare, vittima della sua condizione, deve combattere ogni giorno per sottoporsi alla rieducazione e tentare così di tornare a una vita appena lontanamente normale. Purtroppo è costretto a scontrarsi con le mille preoccupazioni che comporta la vita di disabile e a confrontarsi continuamente con persone malate che hanno perso la voglia di lottare. Il suo esempio diventa un monito per tutti e lezione di grande umanità.

Data di uscita
1990-10-07
TMDB
6.1 / 10 (13)
Durata
1 h 31 min
Generi
Dramma, televisione film
Regista
Harry Winer

Cast

Curiosità

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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