Fight for Life (film)
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| Fight For Life | |
|---|---|
| Directed by | Elliot Silverstein |
| Produced by | Ian McDougall |
| Written by | Tom Nesi Scott Nisor |
| Starring | Jerry Lewis Patty Duke Morgan Freeman |
| Studio | Fries Entertainment |
| Distributed by | ABC Television Network(original) MGM Worldwide Television (current) |
| Release date(s) | March 23, 1987 |
| Running time | 94 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
Fight For Life is a television film produced in 1986 and broadcast on March 23, 1987 on the ABC Television Network.
[edit] Plot
Dr Bernard Abrams (Jerry Lewis), an Ohio optometrist, and his wife Shirley Abrams (Patty Duke) have a six-year old daughter that suffers from a rare form of epilepsy. The child's paraplegic doctor (Morgan Freeman) cares for her. As the little girl's parents they need to have a drug approved from the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). However the process is slow and they are forced to fly to England to obtain the medication. They take their cause to the media in order to highlight their case and force the FDA to expedite its decision on use in America.
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