Editing For Hope

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| image                = Forhopevhs.jpg
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| caption              = 
| genre                = Drama
| creator              = 
| based_on             = 
| writer               = Susan Rice
| screenplay           = 
| story                = 
| director             = [[Bob Saget]]
| starring             = [[Dana Delany]]<br />[[Chris Demetral]]<br />[[Henry Czerny]]<br />[[Polly Bergen]]<br />[[Sharon Monsky]]<br />[[Harold Gould]]
| narrated             = 
| theme_music_composer = [[Peter Rodgers Melnick]]
| country              = United States
| language             = English
| num_episodes         = 
| executive_producer   = [[Bernie Brillstein]]<br />[[Brad Grey]]<br />[[Bob Saget]]
| producer             = [[Karen Moore]]
| location             = 1419 Pendrell Street, Vancouver, British Columbia<br />English Bay Beach, Vancouver, British Columbia
| cinematography       = [[Ron Orieux]]
| editor               = Michael S. Murphy
| camera               = 
| runtime              = 100 min.
| company              = [[Brillstein-Grey Entertainment]]<br />[[Columbia Pictures Television]]
| budget               = 
| network              = [[American Broadcasting Company|ABC]]
| released             = {{Start date|1996|11|17}}
}}

'''''For Hope''''' is a 1996 American [[television film|made-for-television]] [[drama (film and television)|drama film]] starring [[Dana Delany]] and directed by [[Bob Saget]]. Based on Saget's sister Gay, the movie showed the experience of a young woman fatally afflicted with the disease [[scleroderma]]. Other cast members included [[Tracy Nelson (actress)|Tracy Nelson]] and [[Chris Demetral]]. The film premiered on November 17, 1996 on [[American Broadcasting Company|ABC]].

Dana Delany had to have some significant [[prosthetic makeup]] applied to simulate the various degrees of disfigurement the main character, Hope, experienced as a result of the disease.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.themakeupgallery.info/disfigured/disfigured/hope.htm|title=Dana Delany in 'For Hope'|website=themakeupgallery.info|access-date=December 12, 2017}}</ref>

The original airing achieved the top [[Nielsen ratings]] for the [[time slot]]. The movie has periodically been rerun on various TV networks and is available on DVD and VHS for a $20 donation at the [https://web.archive.org/web/20040810092228/http://www.srfcure.org/srf/index.htm Scleroderma Research Foundation].

An extra feature of the movie was that it included a cameo appearance by Scleroderma Research Foundation founder [[Sharon Monsky]].

==References==
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==External links==
* {{IMDb title|0116335|For Hope}}

{{Bob Saget}}

[[Category:1996 films]]
[[Category:1996 drama films]]
[[Category:1996 television films]]
[[Category:American Broadcasting Company television specials]]
[[Category:Films about diseases and disorders]]
[[Category:Films directed by Bob Saget]]
[[Category:American drama television films]]
[[Category:1990s American films]]


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