Fight for Life
5.8
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
21 people
Jerry Lewis
Dr. Bernard Abrams
Known for
The King of Comedy
The Nutty Professor
Morgan Freeman
Dr. Sherard
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Se7en
The Shawshank Redemption
Jaclyn Bernstein
Felice Abrams
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Poltergeist II: The Other Side
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Gerard Parkes
Father Robert Hunt
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Storm of the Century
Fraggle Rock
Patty Duke
Shirley Abrams
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The Miracle Worker
Amityville: The Evil Escapes
Barry Morse
Dr. Whalley
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Space: 1999
The Changeling
James Bearden
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The Scarlet Letter
Robert Benson
Dr. Keith
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Eve Crawford
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Serendipity
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Marcia Diamond
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Rosemary Dunsmore
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Chucky
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Christopher Earle
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Elliot Silverstein Director · Thomas Nesi Story Laurence Rosenthal Composer
United States release March 23, 1987 · Produced in United States
Production
Fries Entertainment
Production
United States
Produced in
Languages
Original language
English
Spoken on screen
English
Release dates
United States · March 23, 1987
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