Based on a true story, this drama centers on a mother and father who decide to have another child in hopes of providing a bone-marrow donor for their leukemia-stricken child.
Acting
Priscilla Lopez carries the maternal desperation like her life depends on it.
Direction
Waris Hussein keeps the TV-movie gloss from suffocating the genuine pain.
Director
Waris Hussein
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This aired on NBC in 1993, part of a wave of 'disease of the week' TV movies that dominated ratings by making America cry on Sunday nights.
The real Anissa Ayala received her transplant in 1990, and her sister Marissa was the second-ever 'savior sibling' case widely reported in U.S. media — this film helped mainstream the bioethics debate.
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