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Fight for Life is a american film of genre Drama directed by Elliot Silverstein released in USA on 23 march 1987 with Jerry Lewis
Fight for Life (1987)
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Add to a movie listReleased in USA 23 march 1987
Length 1h35
Directed by Elliot Silverstein
OriginUSA
Genres Drama
Rating58%
Fight For Life is a television film produced in 1986 and broadcast on March 23, 1987 on the ABC Television Network.
Synopsis
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.Actors
Jerry Lewis
(Dr. Bernard Abrams)
Morgan Freeman
(Dr. Sherard)
Patty Duke
(Shirley Abrams)
Barry Morse
(Dr. Whalley)
Gerard Parkes
(Father Robert Hunt)
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