When You Remember Me

When You Remember Me
Genre	Biography Drama
Written by	Jerry McNeely Cynthia Whitcomb
Directed by	Harry Winer
Starring	Fred Savage Kevin Spacey Ellen Burstyn
Music by	J. Peter Robinson Yanni
Country of origin	United States
Original language	English
Production
Executive producers	David L. Wolper Bernard Sofronski
Producer	Vahan Moosekian
Cinematography	Johnny E. Jensen
Editor	Paul Rubell
Running time	91 minutes
Production companies	Warner Bros. Television David L. Wolper Productions
Original release
Network	ABC
Release	October 7, 1990 (1990-10-07)

When You Remember Me is a 1990 American made-for-television biographical drama film directed by Harry Winer and starring Fred Savage, Kevin Spacey, and Ellen Burstyn. It is based on the life of Michael Patrick Smith, a young man who filed a lawsuit in the early '70s that led to improved conditions for nursing home patients nationwide.^[1]

Plot

Mike Mills is a teen with muscular dystrophy, whose destitute single mother placed him in a state nursing home, where he contends with being a young person in the clinic and with an abusive head nurse, while Wade Blank started ADAPT, a grassroots national disability rights group in Denver in the 1980s.

Cast

• Fred Savage as Mike Mills
• Kevin Spacey as Wade Blank
• Ellen Burstyn as Nurse Cooder
• Richard Jenkins as Vaughan
• Dwier Brown as John Harlen
• Lee Garlington as Joanne
• Ving Rhames as Leon
• Dean Norris as Bill

References

1. "Historical Newspapers from 1700s-2000s". 20 May 2024.

External links

• When You Remember Me at IMDb