The ALS Therapy Development Institute & Augie’s Quest are thrilled about the upcoming release of You’re Not You, a new film that focuses on the life of a woman living with ALS. We anticipate this film will raise tremendous awareness of the realities of this disease and how it affects not only the person diagnosed, but also those around them. We encourage you to view the movie trailer.
Additionally, the film is helping to raise awareness and funding for treatments to end ALS by including a link to
www.ALS.net.
The movie will be available in select cities and On Demand on October 10. Please also
visit the film’s Facebook page for updated information on release information.
Official Synopsis of the Film You’re Not You
Academy Award® winner Hilary Swank (Conviction, Million Dollar Baby) and rapidly rising star Emmy Rossum (“Shameless”) intertwine in You’re Not You, a surprisingly funny, defiantly unsentimental and starkly moving portrait of a high-stakes friendship between two women – one literally in need of a voice, the other discovering the full power of hers.
Kate (Swank) is a suave, successful classical pianist just diagnosed with ALS (commonly known as Lou Gehrig’s Disease). Bec (Rossum) is a brash college student and would-be rock singer who can barely keep her wildly chaotic affairs, romantic and otherwise, together. Yet, when Bec takes a job assisting Kate, just as Kate’s marriage to Evan (Josh Duhamel) hits the skids, both women come to rely on what becomes an unconventional, sometimes confrontational and fiercely honest bond. As meticulous, willful Kate begins to rub off on whirlwind, spontaneous Bec – and vice versa – both women find themselves facing down regrets, exploring new territory and expanding their ideas of who they want to be.
Two-time Tony Award winner and theatre legend George C. Wolfe directs this powerful portrait of a transformational friendship with a cast that includes Emmy Award winner Loretta Devine, Ernie Hudson, Frances Fisher, Oscar® winner Marcia Gay Harden, Emmy nominee Jason Ritter, Julian McMahon, Ali Larter and Andrea Savage.