Fatal Love
Original Title
Something to Live For: The Alison Gertz Story- Director: Tom McLoughlin
- Writer: Deborah Joy LeVine
- Producer: Joan Barnett; Jack Grossbart
CGiii Comment
Based on the true-life story of one young, pretty, intelligent, middle-class and HIV/AIDS stricken Alison (Ali) Gertz. Molly Ringwald plays the titular character who has to come to terms with her illness and the lives affected from all-sides, who, also having to come to terms with a new, modern disease and the dealings of ignorance that was the nineteen-eighties. This is Alison Gertz's story via her teachings of her condition to a world still waking-up to this social stigma and of the courage, sadness and love that her short life touched.
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Cast & Characters
Molly Ringwald as Alison Gertz;
Lee Grant as Carol Gertz;
Perry King as Mark;
Roxana Zal as Tracy;
George Coe as Dr. Feldman;
Christopher Meloni as David;
Kim Myers as Lindy;
Peter Spears as Peter;
Robert Bauer as Ben;
Nancy McLoughlin;
Victor Brandt as Dr. Siege;
Janet MacLachlan as Mrs. Barrett;
Martin Landau as Jerry Gertz;
Jody Montana as Darren;
Garn Stephens as Gwen