Something to Live for: The Alison Gertz Story (also known in UK as Fatal Love) is a 1992

1992 in television

The year 1992 in television involved some significant events.Below is a list of television-related events in 1992.-Events:-Debuts:-1950s:*Hallmark Hall of Fame .*Guiding Light .*The Today Show ....

 television movie

Television movie

A television film is a feature film that is a television program produced for and originally distributed by a television network, in contrast to...

 based on the life of a prominent AIDS

AIDS

Acquired immune deficiency syndrome or acquired immunodeficiency syndrome is a disease of the human immune system caused by the human immunodeficiency virus...

 activist Alison Gertz

Alison Gertz

Alison Gertz was a prominent AIDS activist in the late 1980s and early 1990s, who died from AIDS related complications in 1992.-Biography:...

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Plot summary

Alison Gertz (played by Molly Ringwald

Molly Ringwald

Molly Kathleen Ringwald is an American actress, singer and dancer. Having appeared in the John Hughes movies Sixteen Candles , The Breakfast Club , and Pretty in Pink , Ringwald has been frequently named the greatest teen star of all time...

) is an upscale and self-assured Manhattanite. At the age of sixteen, Gertz meets a bartender named Darren and has an one-night stand with him. This results in her contracting HIV.

The film shows how Gertz overcomes her fears and becomes an advocate educating high schoolers and
collegians.

Cast

• Molly Ringwald
  Molly Ringwald
  Molly Kathleen Ringwald is an American actress, singer and dancer. Having appeared in the John Hughes movies Sixteen Candles , The Breakfast Club , and Pretty in Pink , Ringwald has been frequently named the greatest teen star of all time...
  
   ... Alison Gertz
• Lee Grant
  Lee Grant
  Lee Grant is an American stage, film and television actress, and film director. She was blacklisted for 12 years from film work beginning in the mid-1950s, but worked in the theatre, and would eventually win the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her performance as Felicia Carp in the...
  
   ... Carol Gertz
• Perry King
  Perry King
  Perry Firestone King is an American television and film actor. King played the role of Cody Allen on the detective series Riptide from 1983 to 1986.-Early life:...
  
   ... Mark
• Roxana Zal
  Roxana Zal
  Roxana Zal is an American actress.Zal was born and raised in Malibu, California, the daughter of Maureen and Hossein Zal, a Los Angeles investor. She was on her High School tennis team. Her first acting role was a guest spot on Hart to Hart at age 12. She has had several other guest roles since...
  
   ... Tracy
• George Coe
  George Coe
  George Coe is an American film, stage, and television actor. He is best known for having been a cast member on the first three episodes of Saturday Night Live, as well as for his work on various television shows.-Career:...
  
   ... Dr. Feldman
• Christopher Meloni
  Christopher Meloni
  Christopher Peter Meloni is an American actor. He is best known for his television roles as NYPD Detective Elliot Stabler on the NBC police drama Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, and as inmate Chris Keller on the HBO prison drama Oz.-Early life:Meloni was born the youngest of three children in...
  
   ... David
• Kim Myers
  Kim Myers
  Kimberly S. "Kim" Myers is an American television and film actress.Her breakthrough role was in the 1985 horror classic A Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddy's Revenge as Lisa Webber...
  
   ... Lindy
• Peter Spears ... Peter
• Robert Bauer ... Ben
• Victor Brandt
  Victor Brandt
  Victor Brandt is an American actor mostly known for his voice-over performances.Brandt was born in Los Angeles, California. He has appeared as an actor in several classic shows such as Star Trek, Mission Impossible and T.J Hooker...
  
   ... Dr. Siege
• Janet MacLachlan ... Mrs. Barrett
• Martin Landau
  Martin Landau
  Martin Landau is an American film and television actor. Landau began his career in the 1950s. His early films include a supporting role in Alfred Hitchcock's North by Northwest . He played continuing roles in the television series Mission: Impossible and Space:1999...
  
   ... Jerry Gertz
• Ren Hanami
  Ren Hanami
  Ren Hanami is an American actress. Hanami has appeared in TV shows such as Grey's Anatomy, Without A Trace and ER. Her first feature film role was in the big-budget blockbuster Air Force One...
  
  ... Younger Nurse