Ryan White Chad as Chad. Kurek Ashley Jim as Jim. John Herzfeld. Phil Penningroth story teleplay John Herzfeld teleplay. More like this. Watch options. Storyline Edit. They said he couldn't go to school. They said he couldn't play with other kids. Everybody said he didn't belong anywhere. But his family believed all kids deserve a normal life.
Even a kid with AIDS. Not Rated. Did you know Edit. He died a year after this movie aired on TV, in April Connections Referenced in My Brother's Keeper User reviews 9 Review. Top review.
Good movie. I was in this movie as an extra at South Iredell High School when they were filming. I got to meet Ryan and found that he truly was an inspiration of courage and determination. This movie reflects that. It shows the struggles he goes through and the fierceness with which he and his mother used to overcome the stereotypical impression of AIDS victims during those days. The actors portrayed the characters brilliantly and got a message across that we all need to learn.
I came away from this experience with a new sense of values that we are not judges. The things that we fear the most are things we are most ignorant about. I highly recommend this movie not only to learn about the person, but to learn a very important aspect of life. That each person is a human no matter what the situation and deserves the dignity of such. Details Edit. Release date January 16, United States. United States.
Ryan White Story. Russiaville, Indiana, USA. Landsburg Company Saban International. Technical specs Edit. Runtime 1 hour 45 minutes. He was worried about taking the 7th grade over again, and he didn't want people to think he was dumb, because he was a very smart and intelligent kid. So it was a long process. Through court hearings, we thought it would take one court hearing, and we'd have all these medical experts in so to speak, and then everybody would be educated, but it didn't happen that way.
It was really bad. People were really cruel, people said that he had to be gay, that he had to have done something bad or wrong, or he wouldn't have had it. It was God's punishment, we heard the God's punishment a lot. That somehow, some way he had done something he shouldn't have done or he wouldn't have gotten AIDS. Then we moved to Cicero, Indiana, and there, the community welcomed us. And it was all because a young girl, named Jill Stuart, who was president of the student body, who decided to bring in the medical experts and talk to the kids, and then the kids went home then and educated their parents.
So Ryan was welcome, he got to go to school, he got to go proms and dances. He even got a job. It was kind of funny, he came home once after he turned 16 and told me he had a job for the summer. I thought, "Oh my gosh. Who is going to hire you, knowing who you are? What are you going to be doing? I got a job just like everyone else does. He never bragged or anything about who he was, or what he got to do, he just wanted to be around his friends. Well a lot of people will say, "Your son was such a hero" and all that, but to me, he was my son.
And you know, sometimes it's so confusing, because he was my little boy, and to share him with everybody, because he wasn't perfect, but at the same time, he was my son.
Play audio MP3 KB. At the time when Ryan was diagnosed with AIDS, I mean, we heard of so many drugs coming out, and none of them was worth nothing. By the time you heard of one, there would be another one out, and you would never get the research for one.
And none of them worked. And so even in the early 90s, when I was hearing there was hope, I kind of thought, "You know, we had that hope, too, but they didn't pan out.
The biggest contribution I think that Ryan made is, and I didn't know it at that time, that his legacy would be that people are getting their drugs and their treatment and that people are living with AIDS.
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