Alzheimer in the movies
Alzheimer in the Movies
Still Alice
Alice Howland (Julianne Moore), happily married with three grown children, is a renowned linguistics professor who starts to forget words. When she receives a diagnosis of Early-Onset Alzheimer's Disease, Alice and her family find their bonds thoroughly tested. Her struggle to stay connected to who she once was is frightening, heartbreaking, and inspiring.
The Savages
Laura Linney and Philip Seymour Hoffman play siblings in this tragic comedy about adult children caring for a parent with Dementia.
The Notebook
released in 2004, stars James Garner as a man whose wife, played by Gena Rowlands, is in a nursing home with Alzheimer's disease. Garner's character attempts to rekindle his wife's memories of their long history by reading to her from his notebook. With Ryan Gosling and Rachel McAdams playing the couple in their younger years.
- Fun and upbeat
- Shorter in length (under two hours)
- Not violent and do not portray serious illness or death
- Simpler in terms of plot and number of characters
- The Andy Griffith Show (1960-1968)
- Bonanza (1959-1973)
- Calamity Jane (1953)
- Camelot (1967)
- The Carol Burnett Show (1967-1978)
- Grumpy Old Men (1993)
- Guys and Dolls (1955)
- I Love Lucy (1951-1957)
- It’s a Wonderful Life (1946)
- The Lawrence Welk Show (1955-1982)
- Leave it to Beaver (1957-1963)
- Paint Your Wagon (1969)
- Singin’ in the Rain (1952)
- The Sound of Music (1965)
- The Waltons (1971-1981)
- West Side Story (1961)
- The Wizard of Oz (1939)