When You Remember Me

When You Remember Me is a 1990 American made-for-television biographical drama film directed by Harry Winer and starring Fred Savage, Kevin Spacey, and Ellen Burstyn. It is based on the life of Michael Patrick Smith, a young man who filed a lawsuit in the early '70s that led to improved conditions for nursing home patients nationwide.

Plot
Mike Mills is a teen with muscular dystrophy, whose destitute single mother placed him in a state nursing home, where he contends with being a young person in the clinic and with an abusive head nurse, while Wade Blank started ADAPT, a grassroots national disability rights group in Denver in the 1980s.

Cast

 * Fred Savage as Mike Mills
 * Kevin Spacey as Wade Blank
 * Ellen Burstyn as Nurse Cooder
 * Richard Jenkins as Vaughan
 * Dwier Brown as John Harlen
 * Lee Garlington as Joanne
 * Ving Rhames as Leon
 * Dean Norris as Bill