November 4 - Tuesdays with Morrie

Today’s movie is a drama with a scene that happens on November 4. Watch and enjoy this movie tonight.  

TUESDAYS WITH  MORRIE        

                       

Morrie Schwartz is retired professor who enjoys life until he develops Lou Gehrig’s disease. Mitch Albom, a former of student of his has become an overworked sportwriter who ignores his beautiful, talented girlfriend Janine.  Then Mitch sees Morrie on Nightline and goes to see him.  Janine leaves Mitch over his failure to commit. Morrie tells Mitch about his mother’s death and how his father ignored him, but that his step-mother gave him love and introduced him to education. Mitch works to try to get Janine back, culminating with writing her a letter with a marriage proposal. Janine, intrigued by the change in Mitch goes with him to see Morrie.  Mitch proposes again to Janine and she accepts. Then on November 4,  1995 [1:26:34 to 1:26:55] they get word that Morrie has died.

nytimes.com/1995/11/09/us/morris-schwartz-professor-78.html   gives his date of death

Producer – Jennifer Ogden

Director - Mick Jackson

Screenwriter - Thomas Rickman

Awards – The film won the Outstanding Single Camera Picture Editing for a Miniseries, Movie or a Special, Outstanding Lead Actor in a Miniseries or a Movie (Lemmon), Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Miniseries or a Movie (Azaria) and Outstanding Made for Television Movie. It was also nominated for Outstanding
Sound Mixing for a  Miniseries or a Movie the 52^nd Primetime Emmy Awards.

Runtime – 1 hour 39 minutes

Released - December 5, 1999

Starring -

Jack Lemmon as Morrie Schwartz

Hank Azaria as  Mitch Albom

Wendy Moniz as Janine

Caroline Aaron as Connie

Bonnie Bartlett as Charlotte

Aaron Lustig as Rabbi Al Axelrod

Bruce Nozick as Mr. Schwartz

Ivo Cutzarida as Armand

John Carroll Lynch as Walter Moran

Kyle Sullivan as Young Morrie

Dan Thiel as Shawn Daley

Christian Meoli as Aldo

Copyright by Ivan Walters in 2015