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Fatal Love

Actor(s): Molly Ringwald
Director(s): Tom McLoughlin
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Movie Details

MPAA Rating: NR
Movie Release: 1992
DVD Release: 07/11/2006
Format: DVD - Color
Audio Tracks: English, French, Spanish
SwapaDVD Credits: 1
Number of Discs: 1
Run Time: 1 hrs 40 mins
Studio: Direct Source
Members Wishing: 0
Genres: Drama, Docudrama, Biopic [feature]
See Also: Fatal Love

DVD Synopsis

Something to Live For: The Alison Gertz Story was one of a myriad of early 1990s TV movies centering around the AIDS issue. Molly Ringwald stars as Alison Gertz, an upscale Manhattanite who thinks she knows her way around. Still, Alison conducts an "unprotected" one-night affair, which results in her contacting the AIDS virus. Despite her alleged smarts, Alison continues to seek out sexual partners and can't understand why they're reluctant to sleep with her, even though she belatedly offers to use contraceptives. Perhaps if it had been made five years earlier, and perhaps if it didn't have its characters speaking fluent pop profundities, Something to Live For might have been one of the truly important made-for-TV AIDS sagas. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

Actors

Molly Ringwald - Alison Gertz

Member Movie Reviews

Bridgett A. (Anya) from BALTIMORE, MD wrote on 5/1/2009...

One of my all time favorite movies and certainly Molly Ringwald's best performance ever. True story of a 16-year-old girl who is infected with HIV at the age of 16 during a one night stand. In her early 20's she gets sick and is diagnosed with AIDS. Pretty graphic scenes of her many bouts of different illnesses caused by the breakdown of her immune system. She becomes a speaker about her plight. My favorite part of her speeches, "Look at me. I am the face of AIDS but you wouldn't knot it to look at me." She is referring to her upper middle class upbringing. This is one the teens should watch.