Movies with MS people in them.
 

Excuse my elementary title.

I am wanting to know of any good movies that accurately portray MS. Meaning someone in the movie has MS(Actor), not necessarily th person really having ms. I don't mean Montel Williams or anything....or Annete(RIP).

You know how they have Halmark movies about some person going through the trials of cancer?? I'm looking for that type of movie, only with MS as the "trial) Know where I'm going?:eek:

Reason is I want to get a good movie that accurate portrays someone with MS to recommend to friends so they can get a grip on how I deal with my own MS.

Ok if yo uall want, please let me know some good ones....I will really appreciate it.

There was an excellent documentary that was posted on the boards a while ago... When I walk... I think was the title. Of course it really gave the story of PPMS so depending on which type you have it could appear to be more of a horror flick than representative of your circumstances.

But still it did an excellent job at covering the nature of the disease, the uncertainty of how quickly one might succumb, the various 'treatments' and occasional cruelty of hope. It was extremely well done, and I would highly recommend it for people that are curious about the disease.

I want to see that one, thanks. I'll google it.

I know what you mean....my friends will think I am dying if I show that one:cool:

I just googled When I Walk and watched the trailer and now I have tears running down my face. I can relate to him SO much. I am terrified for what this year, let alone the next yearS, are going to bring. I am also going downhill so fast. I'm in the prime of my life, so they say, and living a nightmare.

ETA- I also think I have PPMS, so I can relate even further.

Keep in mind, that not all MS is the same for all. That goes for PPMS as well. :grouphug:

I just watched When I Walk on Netflix yesterday. My DIL and son watched it with me. It was an excellent portrayal. Even though I am not PPMS I still have some of the symptoms he had. I think it was good that my kids saw it.

It seems most if not all, movies to do with MS have someone with PPMS or a harsher breed of the disease rather than typical RR. I can see why, because obviously someone with PPMS is more dramatic looking than someone with RR and people want to see drama.

I did discover one movie I want to see called "Go Now" it was made in 1995 and quite hard to find except for a torrent download for free. You can watch previews on youtube and it is about some professional soccer player that gets stricken with the effects of a harsher progression of MS. It has a scene of his Wife holding him up as they danced 'one last time'
and other sad looking scenes. Shows him in therapy, toes all curled up and legs not straight at all. Really looks lie a very powerful movie and I need to see it.

However it's nothing I want to show friends, because I'm simply not at that stage yet or hopefully never will be. After 13 years though I can relate to a lot of his problems.

Everybody is different. I'm PPMS, no spasms, no pain but I can't walk. My SIL just died suddenly with Heart failure. I reassured 23 year old DS people of my age seldom die (59, I'm an "old motha") and besides the MS i'm pretty healthy. When I Walk was good but kind of scary. When first DXed in 2002 I read too much and kept waiting for things to happen to me. Most didnt/haven't. I'm very live in the moment now. Worry never stops anything from happening. I never worried about MS and look what happened. Stuff I worried about never happened.

"Words and Pictures" Excellent movie! Clive Owen, Juliette Binochet (her character has MS) . . . nice love story, wonderful portrayal, super storyline. I will be looking to add this to my DVD library: it has an interesting concept, good acting, and portrays people with challenges in a realistic manner.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2380331/

That is what I'm lookin for, thanks. Just got it from NetFlix, can't wait.
I'm taking a guess the movie isnt all about MS, just a movie but the character has MS...

There's a new TV show called "Scorpion" and one of the main characters has a sister with MS. She is bright, beautiful, well spoken and uses crutches. And in the storyline they keep mentioning her impending death. :eek: It's driving me crazy when I see it mentioned in that show. :mad:

They did the same dying thing with Curtis's wife w/MS, in Law n Order...
and she died too...grrrrrrr!!:mad:

I'm guessing they used MS as the cause because most people don't know a lot about it. A lot of the people I know are totally clueless and would probably tell me they learned all about it from watching.

In both of those shows, was MS supposed to be the cause of death? What a load! :mad:

Y E P ! :mad:

I've been watching the TV series "West Wing"--not finished with it yet but the US President has MS though so far it hasn't been so very important in the story.

I liked "Lourdes" but definitely did not like "Hilary and Jackie." Those two movies are about people with severe types of MS. Except for "West Wing," I can't think of any film portrayals of people with the more common kinds of MS.

I liked West Wings portrayal. Very realistic, to me.
I could relate.:cool:

Simply because common MS isn't as dramatic as harsher more intense forms. The worse stages of MS make for better drama and thus movie. Also people then associate that bad bad MS with ALL MS which leaves us commoners in the "do you really have MS?" group.
It frustrates me, because I've been told "You don't seem to have it like that guy in that movie" :rolleyes:

Actually The character has Rheumatoid arthritis(R.A.) it says it a couple of times in the movie.

Looks like MS though, but many things do look like MS. Good movie, watched it today.

We could always write a cheesy harlequin novel and hope hallmark picks it up to be one of their movies :p. Ms. Ms, tragically loses her boyfriend after she forgets his birthday, would have chased after him but there were stairs, but here comes the hero! A promising neuroscientist determined to cure her disease, after failing to rid the world of the dermatitis that plagued his mother till her dying breath, he vowed never again to touch an acne cream and returned to med school to learn neurology.

What will be come of these star crossed lovers bound by a fate beyond their control? Will the hero find the cure for the woman he loves, or will his next failure find him flipping burgers? Will Ms. Ms, ever learn to open her heart, and purchase a single story home, or will stairs cost her her true love once more?:eek::eek::eek:

Sorry not making light of the desire for a good movie that doesn't make us out to be on death door, or depicting us all as heading straight for an infantile state. It's just that it's pretty much as has been said, mild cases aren't as dramatic and as such arent 'worth' as much to most viewers. And if an author or screenwriter was too careless in tossing the word around it would bomb and they'd probably be blasted with hate mail... Oddly enough probably only 1% would be from those actually suffering with ms, but you can be sure those who claim to "know" the disease by virtue of a second cousin twice removed whose picture they saw once had it, will be quite happy to cry foul on our behalf.

Cancer is much easier to throw around, you don't even have to say what kind of cancer and can pretty much make up anything you like, just toss around cancer, chemo, puking, decide fatal, non-fatal or 'miracle' and maybe toss in a bit of hair loss for some extra drama. ;) it's a cheap sale that will have readers or movie goers eating out of the palm of your hand and can hide innumerable lackings to plots and character development.

I remember an episode of a tv show called "Cold Case" that used MS as a plot device. Nasty serial killer comes out of hiding to challenge to star of the show to solve murders that he'd committed. Was claiming that his MS was in the end stages, and he was going to die in months.

From what I remember of the episode, he looked fairly mobile, and not really disabled. It's been years since I saw it, and I pretty much tried to forget the episode after watching it.

Okay, it might be true when they say 'write what you know', all this talk about a lack of realistic lesser cases of ms has apparently left me inspired. I've been up since 2am writing. I don't have quite all the details laid out concerning exact plot points and whatnots, but so far I have to say I'm enjoying it, and liking how things are coming together, normally when I try to write the characters love to argue with me and take on a life of their own until our differing opinions send us our separate ways. Or they're too complacent and I get bored.

And while yeah it's still a cheesy romance novel (don't you just love to hate to admit you love those) I think I can pull it off. Certainly without needing to add 'dramatic effect' by making the disease fatal, or requiring some super surgery, and likewise without miraculously 'curing' the disease. MS by its lonesome I think carries more than enough drama. So it's really a matter of deciding how smart I want the hero to be at this point, clueless jerk that gets educated, or smart softy that can educate the poor jaded heroine?

If you can bring yourself to admit that there's one or more Harlequin or Penguin Publishing novels on your bookshelf... Which would you prefer if you were to see MS mentioned on a fictional books cover? Currently there's two guys battling it out in my head, both with some surprisingly logical and reasonable explanations as to why they'd be the better choice while the heroine is just too happy over the guys fighting over her....

I'm starting to question if it might not be time to consider anti-psychosis drugs....

Ack sorry for running OOT there