When You Remember Me | |
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Directed by | Harry Winer |
Produced by | Vahan Moosekian |
Written by | Jerry McNeely |
Starring |
Fred Savage Kevin Spacey Ellen Burstyn |
Music by |
J. Peter Robinson Yanni |
Release date
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October 7, 1990 |
Running time
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91 minutes |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
When You Remember Me is a 1990 fact-based television film. 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.
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.