The Ryan White Story (1989)

Directors

John Herzfeld

Cast

Lukas Haas, Judith Light, Nikki Cox, Michael Bowen

The story

Ryan White is a teenage hemophiliac who discovers he has contracted AIDS through contaminated blood products and is then barred from attending school by Western School Corporation in Russiaville, Indiana, just outside Kokomo. Ryan and his mother Jeanne engage the services of Charles Vaughn Sr., a high-powered attorney to win back his basic rights to attend school. This turns into a prolonged legal battle of multiple appeals, which ends with Ryan being allowed to attend school on the condition he use disposable flatware in the cafeteria and is exempted from physical education.

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