A Mother's Prayer is a 1995 film made for the USA Network

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 starring Linda Hamilton

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, in a Golden Globe

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-nominated performance, as a woman who learns she has contracted the AIDS

AIDS

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 virus and must make future plans for the care of her only son. The film, which counts Kate Nelligan

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, S. Epatha Merkerson

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 and Bruce Dern

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 in its supporting cast, premiered on May 25, 1995. It was eventually expanded, given a PG-13 rating and released on VHS via MCA/Universal Home Entertainment in 1997.

Plot Overview

Rosemary Holmstrom is struggling to bring up her son following the death of her husband. When she is diagnosed with AIDS, at first she refuses to believe it, but soon turns her attentions to the problem of what will happen to her son when she dies.

Cast

• Linda Hamilton
  Linda Hamilton
  Linda Carroll Hamilton is an American actress best known for her portrayal of Sarah Connor in The Terminator and its sequel Terminator 2: Judgment Day and Catherine Chandler in the television series Beauty and the Beast, for which she was nominated for two Golden Globes and an Emmy...
  
   ... Rosemary Holmstrom
• Kate Nelligan
  Kate Nelligan
  Patricia Colleen "Kate" Nelligan is a Canadian BAFTA award winning stage, film and television actress.-Early life:Nelligan, the fourth of six children, was born in London, Ontario, the daughter of Josephine Alice , a schoolteacher, and Patrick Joseph Nelligan, a factory repairman and municipal...
  
   ... Sheila Walker
• Noah Fleiss
  Noah Fleiss
  Noah Fleiss is an American film and television actor. He was born in White Plains, New York.Fleiss made his screen debut as a young runaway who drives cross-country with his brother in Josh and S.A.M. , perhaps his best-known film...
  
   ... T.J. Holmstrom
• Bruce Dern
  Bruce Dern
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   ... John Walker
• RuPaul
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   ... Deacon "Dede"
• S. Epatha Merkerson
  S. Epatha Merkerson
  S. Epatha Merkerson is an American film, stage, and television actress. She has won a Golden Globe, Emmy Awards, Screen Actors Guild Awards, Obie Award and four NAACP Image Awards. She has also received two Tony Award nominations...
  
   ... Ruby
• Alex Kapp Horner
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   ... Martha
• Corey Parker
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   ... Spence Walker
• Jenny O'Hara ... Val
• Gail Strickland
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   ... Ruth
• McNally Sagal ... Dr. Kahn
• Aaron Lustig ... Dr. Shapiro
• Julie Garfield ... JoAnne Wasserman

Awards & Recognition

• CableACE Awards -- Won

Linda Hamilton
Actress in a Movie or Miniseries
1995

• Golden Globe Awards, The Hollywood Foreign Press—Nominated

Linda Hamilton
Best Performance by an Actress in a Mini-Series or Motion Picture Made for TV
1996

• Humanitas Prize

Lee Rose
1996

• Young Artist Awards—Nominated

Noah Fleiss

Noah Fleiss

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Best Performance by a Young Actor - TV Special
1996