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]
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.