Michael J. Fox Makes An Appearance At Sundance To Support 'Still: A Michael J. Fox Movie' About His Battle With Parkinson's
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It’s been 25 years since Michael J. Fox went public with his Parkinson’s disease diagnosis, which had been received seven years earlier. At the time of diagnosis, he was told he had ten good years left of acting before he got too sick, leading to his 2000 departure from Spin City and ebbs and flows of acting gigs, even a guest actor Emmy for The Good Wife. By 2020, the condition deteriorated enough that he officially retired.
All this is covered in much greater detail in Oscar winner Davis Guggenheim’s new documentary Still: A Michael J. Fox Movie, which premiered Friday at the Sundance Film Festival. It tells Fox’s life story, as the Canadian who moved to Hollywood on very little money, became the town’s “boy prince”, and in the face of his diagnosis, became an advocate and a “beacon of hope” for those also affected by the disease.
Director Guggenheim says it’s not a film about Parkinson’s, and Deseret in its review iterates it’s not about him either, but his strength and support system to do what he has done over the years. Of course, it wouldn’t be right for him to miss out on the festival in support of the film. As he says “There’s a lot to enjoy in life.”, and that’s what he wants people to get from the film.
Still: A Michael J. Fox Movie will be an Apple TV+ exclusive, released for the masses sometime later this year.
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Source: Deseret, Entertainment Weekly
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