When You Remember Me (1990)

Directors

Harry Winer

Cast

Ellen Burstyn, Fred Savage, Kevin Spacey

The story

Mike Mills is a teen with muscular dystrophy, whose destitute single mother who has three other children to care for, placed him in a state nursing home, where he contends with being a young person in the clinic and with an abusive head nurse (reminiscent of Nurse Ratched from One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest), while the nursing homes recreation director Wade Blank, a friend to Mike at the nursing home, started ADAPT, a grassroots national disability rights group in Denver in the 1980s.

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