So Much So Fast
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| name = So Much So Fast
| image = So much so fast.jpg
| caption = Promotional film poster
| director = Steven Ascher
Jeanne Jordan
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| writer = Steven Ascher
Jeanne Jordan
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| released = {{Film date|2006}}
| runtime = 87 minutes
| country = United States
| language = English
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So Much So Fast is a documentary film written and directed by Academy Award nominees Steven Ascher and Jeanne Jordan. It premiered in competition at the 2006 Sundance Film Festival, and won the Audience Award at the Boston Independent Film Festival.
Synopsis
So Much So Fast documents 5 years in the life of Stephen Heywood who, at 29, discovers he had the paralyzing neurodegenerative disease Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (Lou Gehrig's disease).
Determined to live as well as possible, Stephen gets married, has a son and rebuilds two houses. His and his wife Wendy's observations of the world and his disease explore the fragility of life.
The film also tracks his family's response to the drug companies that ignore his disease because there is not enough profit in curing it, and his brother, Jamie Heywood's, creation of the ALS Therapy Development Foundation research facility to find a cure for Stephen's disease in time.
External links
- [http://www.somuchsofast.com Official Film Site]
- {{IMDb title|id=0492488}}
- [https://www.apple.com/trailers/independent/somuchsofast/ Film trailer]
- [https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/somuchsofast/ So Much So Fast] Frontline
Category:Documentary films about people with motor neuron disease
Category:2006 documentary films
Category:American documentary films
Category:2000s English-language films
Category:English-language documentary films
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