National Multiple Sclerosis Awareness Month || Movies and TV depicting MS

You can find several movies and television programs with include characters with MS or which address the challenges of those living with MS. Check out the list below:


MOVIES

A Dream Is a Wish Your Heart Makes: The Annette Funicello Story (1995 TV Movie)

Duet for One (1986)

Eden (1996)

Edie & Thea: A Very Long Engagement (2009 documentary)

Freak City (1999 TV Movie)

Go Now (1995)

Guru (2007)

Hilary and Jackie (1998)

In Sickness and in Health (1992 TV Movie)

Swim Lessons: The Nick Irons Story (2008 documentary)

When I Walk (2013 documentary)


TV

Chicago Hope (1996)
Episode: "The Stand" (features real-life MSer Richard Pryor).

Forever Knight (1995)
Episode: "Blind Faith"

Law & Order
Lead character, Rey Curtis, played by Benjamin Bratt, is married to an MSer.

West Wing 
Lead character, President Bartlett, played by Martin Sheen, hides MS, then comes out about his condition.

National Multiple Sclerosis Awareness Month || Celebrity Jack Osbourne on living with MS, plus other familiar faces fighting MS

Three famous faces of multiple sclerosis: L to R: Montel Williams, Ann Romney, Jack Osbourne

People living with multiple sclerosis are lucky to have so many celebrity spokespeople out there helping to drive home the need for research and a cure. Some famous people have parents or siblings or spouses with MS, while others are living with it today and have been doing so for a very long time.

Here's a nice video interview with Jack Osbourne, son of Ozzy and Sharon Osbourne, who was diagnosed in his mid 20s and is working diligently to get the word out about multiple sclerosis: how it affects people's lives and what needs to be done about it. Osbourne also has a great awareness promoting website to check out: You Don't Know Jack About MS.

Here are two other slideshows highlighting personalities who are deeply impacted by multiple sclerosis. Tell me you aren't surprised by who makes the list.
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