oprah winfrey presents mitch albom's for one more day 2007

My books and movies became what life was about. I visited hospitals, hospices, and universities, and these sorts of issues became the basis of my next movies. I was all ready to go back to my life as sportswriter, and then the book really took off, and everywhere I went, people wanted to talk about the book not the sports writing. I got paid for it, and I gave the money to him. I decided to record all this and try to sell his memoirs to pay his medical bills. I went every Tuesday to his house, and I drilled him about what was important to him in life and what wasn’t. But then in 1995 I visited with my old professor, Morrie Schwartz, who was dying from Lou Gehrig’s disease.

I was a sports writer for much of my career, perfectly content to keep doing that. Did you always want to move from books to movies, and was yours the typical Hollywood process of having doors slammed in your face?Īctually, no. So, you have several best-selling books, and now screenplays and movies out there. We had the privilege of interviewing the movie’s writer and producer, Mitch Albom, whose book of the same title was the basis for this movie. During their touching encounter, Charley discovers some secrets about his mother, his childhood, and himself that, if he chooses to let the truth sink in, may have the power to release his soul from its torment. Through one last gift from heaven, however, he encounters his mother again in their hometown, and gets to spend one last day with her – the day he missed and always wished he'd had. His resulting depression and alcoholism have caused him to lose his family, and when he finds out that he’s missed his own daughter’s wedding because he wasn’t invited, he decides to take his own life. Starring Academy Award ®-winning actress Ellen Burstyn and Emmy Award ®-winning actor Michael Imperioli, “For One More Day” is the story of a man whose mother’s death and the details surrounding it have haunted him for years. These are the questions posed in an upcoming two-hour television event motion picture, “Oprah Winfrey Presents: Mitch Albom’s For One More Day,” airing this Sunday night, December 9 on ABC.

What if you could have one more day with someone who passed away? How would you spend it? What could you learn?

Oprah winfrey presents mitch albom's for one more day 2007