Desperate Choices: To Save My Child (1992) (TV)

User Rating:

6.3/10   

Director:

Andy Tennant

Writers (WGA):

Sandra Jennings (story)
Sandra Jennings (teleplay) ...

Release Date:

5 October 1992 (USA)

Genre:

Drama

Plot:

Sixteen-year-old Cassie Robbins is a spirited teenage girl, who loves her father Richard and stepmother...

Awards:

2 nominations

Cast

Joanna Kerns	...	Mel Robbins
Bruce Davison	...	Richard Robbins
Joseph Mazzello	...	Willy Robbins (as Joe Mazzello)
Jeremy Sisto	...	Josh Ryan
Bruce McGill	...	Dan Ryan
Steven Gilborn	...	Dr. Andrews
Rondi Reed
Ron Canada
Reese Witherspoon	...	Cassie Robbins
J.D. Hall	...	Coach Watson
Phillip Curry	...	Judge Bloom
William Newman	...	Dr. Edwards
Debby Shively	...	Angela Vincente
Larry Brandenburg	...	Ed Foster
Shaun Duke	...	Benny (as Duke Moosekian)

Also Known As:

The Final Choice

Runtime:

100 min | Germany:88 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.33 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono

Certification:

Iceland:L

Willies the only possibility

Solomon's Choice is another name for this tv-movie. A married Couple, The Robinsons, have 15-year-old daughter, Cassie (Witherspoon) in one of her first roles, before she became the hot popular actress that's Legally Blonde. diagnosed with Lukiemia. The doctors and the parents of the child, know that the only possible cure is a marrow transplant by her half brother, Willy (the one and only Joseph Mazzello), who was in a car crash a year before having a lasting injury. Cassie lives the life of a normal kid, she plays football, and runs, and denies that she has it, and says there's nothing wrong with her. Newsflash, There's something wrong with everyone, you'd be perfect if there wasn't. Willy is clueless as to what's going on with her sister, but colors pictures and writes to her, and does some blood work. I was surprised at the level of intense sad parts in the movie, the wife and Husband brawl and fight and even physically abuse each other, and their marriage is being endangered. Cassie even has to trim most of her hair. This movie is a semi family film and is a tearjerker, with affectionate parents, and still friendly parents, and has a happy ending. It dissapointed me however, how it skipped past Willy having the surgery.