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1990 - SEIZURE: THE STORY OF KATHY MORRIS
90 min
Ass Prod: Carole Isenberg
Art Dir: Charles Hughes
As. Dir: Thomas John Cane
Title song sung by Kathy Morris
Kathy Morris: Penelope Milford
Dr. Richard Connought:
Leonard Nimoy
Patrick Morris: Christopher Allport
Larry: Fredric Lehne
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Based on a true story. Kathy Morris is a music student at the Manhattan School of Music.
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She loves to sing and compose and she works part time as a waitress, practices with a rock group and cares for her younger brother, Patrick. Her boyfriend, Larry, is the leader of the rock group. Being quite used to momentary losses of memory and frequent headaches she finds herself in hospital after a
seizure.
Dr. Richard Connought informs her about a benign meningioma. The neurosurgeon also tells her that he's decided to operate on the tumor, removing it from her brain.
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During the operation unforeseen complications make the removal of the brain tumor impossible.
An abnormal swelling of the brain occurs and Dr. Connought, who's taping the operation
for teaching purposes for his students, is facing a tough decision. He must close the
skull again, but the swelling does not allow this. He has to act quickly and decides
to cut some of the tissue in order to reduce the volume.
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Dr. Connought has a hard time to figure
out what might have happened and to tell Richard and Larry that Kathy might not
survive the operation.
At home his wife is heading for
a longer trip to London –alone, and the students wonder whether it was right
having cut the tissue.
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The latter he can handle because this has been the only possibility
to give her a chance of life t all. He is taking home some work which
keeps him busy until late nights.
Conversations with Kathy begin. She does not give up hope and is
even interested in Dr. Connought's personal life. He has to operate
twice on her again. Once to remove the swelling and another time to
remove the tumor.
His self assuring professionalism is shaken,
giving him the chance to face personal topics in is life.
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One day he cooks a perfect dinner for his wife, decorates the
table and wants to surprise her. It is obvious that he did not do
this regularly before. His wife, Lily, has waited too long and
she's very much aware what it had been like before that she
still decides to go on the London trip to find some way of life for herself.
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After the tumor has been removed, Kathy recovers in spite of all
predictions made. She encourages Dr. Connought not
to give up his relationship with his wife and thanks him for his
endurance during these six months. Kathy also encourages him to show
his wife that he cares for her and that he's not prepared to give her up.
He promptly decides to go to London to spend some months with his wife. Kathy's strong will
had added to letting her regain her speaking abilities – even pursue
her singing career.
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