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Something to Live for: The Alison Gertz Story is a american film of genre Drama directed by Tom McLoughlin released in USA on 26 march 1992 with Molly Ringwald

Something to Live for: The Alison Gertz Story (1992)

Something to Live for: The Alison Gertz Story
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Released in USA 26 march 1992
Length 1h40
Directed by
OriginUSA
Genres Drama,    Biography
Rating63% 3.1914653.1914653.1914653.1914653.191465

Something to Live for: The Alison Gertz Story (also known in UK as Fatal Love) is a 1992 American television movie based on the life of a prominent AIDS activist Alison Gertz. The movie originally aired on ABC on March 29, 1992, approximately four months before Gertz's death.

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Alison Gertz (played by Molly Ringwald) is an upscale and self-assured Manhattanite. At the age of sixteen, Gertz meets a bartender named Darren and has a one-night stand with him. This results in her contracting HIV. The film shows how Gertz overcomes her fears and becomes an advocate educating high schoolers and collegians.

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