Genre: | Biography Drama |
Director: | Harry Winer |
Starring: | Fred Savage Kevin Spacey Ellen Burstyn |
Music: | J. Peter Robinson Yanni |
Country: | United States |
Language: | English |
Producer: | Vahan Moosekian |
Executive Producer: | David L. Wolper Bernard Sofronski |
Editor: | Paul Rubell |
Cinematography: | Johnny E. Jensen |
Runtime: | 91 minutes |
Company: | Warner Bros. Television David L. Wolper Productions |
Network: | ABC |
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.