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Something to Live for: The Alison Gertz Story is a american film of genre Drama directed by Tom McLoughlin released in USA on 26 march 1992 with Molly Ringwald
Something to Live for: The Alison Gertz Story (1992)
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Add to a movie listSomething to Live for: The Alison Gertz Story (also known in UK as Fatal Love) is a 1992 American television movie based on the life of a prominent AIDS activist Alison Gertz. The movie originally aired on ABC on March 29, 1992, approximately four months before Gertz's death.
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Alison Gertz (played by Molly Ringwald) is an upscale and self-assured Manhattanite. At the age of sixteen, Gertz meets a bartender named Darren and has a one-night stand with him. This results in her contracting HIV. The film shows how Gertz overcomes her fears and becomes an advocate educating high schoolers and collegians.Actors
Molly Ringwald
(Alison Gertz)
Lee Grant
(Carol Gertz)
Perry King
(Mark)
Martin Landau
(Jerry Gertz)
Roxana Zal
(Tracy)
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