Drama based on a true story, starring Molly Ringwald and Lee Grant. Alison Gertz, a young non-promiscuous American from an upper-middle-class background, is shattered to learn that she has developed an Aids-related illness. As her family and friends struggle to come to terms with her plight, Alison decides to fight the disease.
This hard-hitting, true-story drama features a compellingly strong performance from Molly Ringwald as Alison Gertz, a white middle-class girl who had only a handful of sexual partners prior to discovering she was HIV-positive. Ringwald's career hit its peak in the mid-1980s in such Brat Pack movies as The Breakfast Club and Pretty in Pink, but she subsequently struggled to find roles as good as this one. The problem here is not the usual "drowning in a sea of tears" scenario, but the rather overt and simplistic way in which the movie suggests there are "nice girls" like Gertz who don't deserve Aids and the "other sort" who somehow do.
| role | name |
|---|---|
| Alison Gertz | Molly Ringwald |
| Carol Gertz | Lee Grant |
| Mark | Perry King |
| Jerry Gertz | Martin Landau |
| Tracy | Roxana Zal |
| Lindy | Kim Myers |
| Peter | Peter Spears |
| Dr Feldman | George Coe |
| Darren | Jody Montana |
| Gwen | Garn Stephens |
| role | name |
|---|---|
| Director | Tom McLoughlin |
