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Fight for Life

1987 · 1h 34m · Drama

Jerry Lewis plays an Ohio optometrist who has a six-year old daughter with epilepsy. He fights to get the FDA to approve a drug (at that time only available in England) for use in the U.S.

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Cast

• Jerry Lewis as Dr. Bernard Abrams
• Morgan Freeman as Dr. Sherard
• Jaclyn Bernstein as Felice Abrams
• Gerard Parkes as Father Robert Hunt
• Patty Duke as Shirley Abrams
• Barry Morse as Dr. Whalley
• James Bearden
• Robert Benson as Dr. Keith
• Eve Crawford
• Marcia Diamond
• Rosemary Dunsmore
• Christopher Earle

Details

Director

Elliot Silverstein

Released

March 23, 1987

Runtime

1h 34m

Genres

Drama

Studio

Fries Entertainment

Status

Released

TMDB score

6.0 / 10 from 6 votes