Desperate Choices: To Save My Child

Desperate Choices: To Save My Child (1992)

DramaTV Movie

Sixteen-year-old Cassie Robbins is a spirited teenage girl, who loves her father Richard and stepmother Mel and dotes on her six-year-old half-brother Willy. But her carefree, happy life is forever changed when she is diagnosed with leukeamia and her only hope of a cure lies in a bone-marrow transplant. However, when Willy proves to be a match, Mel is not-so-willing to allow her young son to undergo surgery as he nearly died the last time he was operated on after reacting badly to the anaesthetic. Mel and Richard now have to decide if it right to risk the life of one of their children to save the life of the other child. And of Willy's own rights in deciding if he should help the sister he hero-worships...?

Director: Andy Tennant

Casts

	Joanna Kerns as Mel Robbins
	Bruce Davison as Richard Robbins
	Joseph Mazzello as Willy Robbins
	Jeremy Sisto as Josh Ryan
	Bruce McGill as Dan Ryan
	Steven Gilborn as Dr. Andrews
	Rondi Reed as Dr. Brunell
	Ron Canada as
	Reese Witherspoon as Cassie Robbins
	J.D. Hall as Coach Watson
	Phillip C. Curry as Judge Bloom
	William Newman as Dr. Edwards
	Debby Shively as Angela Vincente
	Larry Brandenburg as Ed Foster
	Shaun Duke as Benny
	Mary Kohnert as Mrs. Hefner
	Huck Liggett as Danny
	Bryan Anthony as Tough Kid
	Mark Davenport as Mark
	Dean Scofield as John Schuyler (uncredited)

Crew