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Short Film by Michael Sewell: Wheel of Knowing

Julie Christie was nominated for Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture (Drama) for her role as woman who is disappearing into the vortex of Alzheimer’s disease in ‘Away From Her’.

Sissy Spacek has been nominated for Best Performance by an Actress in a Mini-Series or Motion Picture Made for Television with her performance as a foster mother beginning to show signs of Alzheimer’s Disease in “Pictures of Hollis Woods.”

A Hallmark Hall of Fame movie, Pictures of Hollis Woods was aired on CBS earlier this month. You can see a preview and purchase the DVD at the Hallmark website. The Hallmark site also features information about the 10 warning signs of Alzheimer’s Disease and also offers a teacher’s guide to stimulate learning and conversation amongst school aged children.

The Golden Globe Awards ceremony will be broadcast Sunday, Jan. 13, on NBC.

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Golden Globe nominations for Alzheimer’s roles.

Harper is Missing – the story of an old man with Alzheimer’s disease who wanders away from his assisted living facility

Without You – the story of a mother and daughter and Alzheimer’s disease

Darkness – the story of a man who’s wife has Alzheimer’s disease

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Short Films about Alzheimer’s disease.

Carol’s list of Top Caregiving Movies is…

5. Evening

4. Marvin’s Room

3. Driving Miss Daisy

2. Proof

1. Throw Mama from the Train

Head over to Carol’s blog Mothering Mother and More and discover her reasons for the movies on the list. It’s quite inspiring. (when you get to Carol’s site, click on blog at the left of the screen and then scroll down to her posts about the movies)

Let’s see if we can add to it…

By the way, Carol is planning a virtual book tour in September to promote her book ‘Mothering Mother’. Alzheimer’s Notes will be reviewing the book and taking part in the book tour so stay tuned…

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Escapism for Alzheimer’s Caregivers.

But it is his most recent role in Memories of Tomorrow playing a high-profile ad manager who is diagnoses with Alzheimer’s disease that has made the most impact on him. So much impact that he has decided to donate a portion of his salary from the film to the Japanese Alzheimer’s Association.

Ken Watanabe says “Alzheimer’s is a very serious problem and young Alzheimer’s sufferers still have energy and it progresses quickly. All the patients lost their memory but their emotion still remained with sadness and happiness, pain. I was involved with adapting and writing the script and before writing it we were concerned about how much of Alzheimer’s we could show in the film. We met real patients and their families, and nurses and doctors and visited nursing homes and we were very sensitive about which elements we could show. We wanted to show enough of the disease so that people who have experienced it would believe the story and also to show enough of the disease so that people who haven’t experienced it wouldn’t be afraid.” (PR-Inside.com)

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‘Memories of Tomorrow ‘ actor Ken Watanabe donates portion of his salary to Japan’s Alzheimer’s Association.

You’ll find very interesting and informative interview of Ken Wanatabe at ComingSoon.net will give you insight about how he discovered the book and decided to make this movie. 

“He plays the manager of a high profile ad agency whose life is altered when he starts showing the early stages of Alzheimer’s at age 49.”

Whereas many of the movies dealing with Alzheimer’s portrayed someone who contracted this disease later in life.  Memories of Tomorrow is about early onset Alzheimer’s.  I’m looking forward to seeing this movie when it’s available.

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Memories of Tomorrow, new movie about Alzheimer’s

Iris (2001) about the life of writer Iris Murdoch, including her battle with Alzheimer’s disease.

Review: Life’s painful truth, perfectly performed

Away with Her (2006) about a woman slipping into Alzheimer’s disease.

Review: ‘Iris’: Heroic on a a Human Scale

Can anyone think of any other movies that deal with Alzheimer’s disease?

I’ll have to own up here and say that I’ve seen neither of these movies…will have to put them on my list of things to do on a rainy day.

Have you seen them? What did you think of their portrayal of Alzheimer’s disease?

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Hollywood movies about Alzheimer’s disease.