Something to Live for: The Alison Gertz Story (1992)
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Directors
Tom McLoughlin
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Molly Ringwald
The story
Alison Gertz (played by Molly Ringwald) is an affluent 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.
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biographical film, drama film
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