Gaby: A True Story is a 1987 American

United States

The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

-Mexican drama film

Drama film

A drama film is a film genre that depends mostly on in-depth development of realistic characters dealing with emotional themes. Dramatic themes such as alcoholism, drug addiction, infidelity, moral dilemmas, racial prejudice, religious intolerance, poverty, class divisions, violence against women...

 directed by Luis Mandoki

Luis Mandoki

Luis Mandoki is a Mexican film director working in Mexico and Hollywood.Luis Mandoki studied Fine Arts in Mexico and at the San Francisco Art Institute, the London College of Printing, and the London International Film School...

 and written by Michael Love (as Michael James Love) and Martín Salinas. It chronicles the life of Gabriela Brimmer

Gabriela Brimmer

Gabriela "Gaby" Brimmer , a writer and activist for persons with disabilities, was born in Mexico as a daughter of Austrian Jewish immigrants. Gaby was born with cerebral palsy and since childhood learned to act in a world that has difficulty accepting diversity...

, Mexican writer and disability rights activist.

Plot

Gaby Brimmer, the child of Austrian refugees living in Mexico, is born with cerebral palsy. Though her body is completely paralyzed, her mind is unaffected, and she is able to become a college graduate and an acclaimed author.

Principal cast

• Rachel Levin
  Rachel Chagall
  Rachel Chagall is an American actress, who specialized in comedic roles. She best known for roles as Gaby on the film Gaby: A True Story , , for which she was nominated for Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Drama , and as Val Toriello on The Nanny .- Life and career :Born as...
  
   as Gaby (Levin changed her stage name to Chagall later)
• Norma Aleandro
  Norma Aleandro
  Norma Aleandro Robledo is an Argentine actress and screenwriter, born in Buenos Aires to Pedro Aleandro and María Luisa Robledo, both actors. Her sister, María Vaner, was a famous actress in Argentina.- Life and career :...
  
   as Florencia
• Liv Ullmann
  Liv Ullmann
  Liv Johanne Ullmann is a Norwegian actress and film director, as well as one of the "muses" of the Swedish director Ingmar Bergman...
  
   as Sari
• Robert Loggia
  Robert Loggia
  Robert Loggia is an American film and television actor and director.- Early life :Loggia, an Italian American, was born on Staten Island, the son of Elena Blandino, a homemaker, and Benjamin Loggia, a shoemaker, both of whom were born in Sicily, Italy...
  
   as Michel
• Lawrence Monoson
  Lawrence Monoson
  Lawrence Monoson is an American film and television actor.His first film was the 1982 comedy The Last American Virgin, in which he starred as Gary. His other well known film roles are in the 1984 horror movie Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter as Ted, and the 1985 hit drama movie Mask as Ben...
  
   as Fernando
• Robert Beltran
  Robert Beltran
  Robert Adame Beltran is an American actor, known for his role as Commander Chakotay on Star Trek: Voyager.-Early life:...
  
   as Luis
• Beatriz Sheridan
  Beatriz Sheridan
  Beatriz Sheridan was a Mexican actress and director. She died from a heart attack.-Biography:Elizabeth Ann Sheridan Scarbrough was born in 1934 in Mexico City, Mexico, to an English mother and a Mexican father...
  
   as Fernando's mother
• Tony Goldwyn
  Tony Goldwyn
  Anthony Howard "Tony" Goldwyn is an American actor and director. He portrayed the villain Carl Bruner in Ghost, Colonel Bagley in The Last Samurai, and the voice of the title character of the Disney animated Tarzan.-Early life:...
  
   as David

Critics

The New York Times said the film was blunt and unsentimental. It praised Aleandro very highly.

Awards and nominations

Nominated
Academy Awards

Academy Awards

An Academy Award, also known as an Oscar, is an accolade bestowed by the American Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to recognize excellence of professionals in the film industry, including directors, actors, and writers...

• Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress
  Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress
  Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role is one of the Academy Awards of Merit presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to recognize an actress who has delivered an outstanding performance while working within the film industry. Since its inception, however, the...
  
   (Aleandro)

Casting Society of America

Casting Society of America

Founded in Los Angeles, California in 1982, the Casting Society of America is a professional society of about 350 casting directors for film, television, and theatre in Australia, Canada, Italy, the United Kingdom and the United States. The society is not to be confused with an industry union. The...

• Best Casting – Motion Picture Drama

Golden Globe Awards

• Best Actress – Motion Picture Drama
  Golden Globe Award for Best Actress - Motion Picture Drama
  The Golden Globe Award for Best Actress - Motion Picture - Drama was first awarded by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association as a separate category in 1951...
  
   (Chagall)
• Best Supporting Actress – Motion Picture
  Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress - Motion Picture
  The Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress – Motion Picture was first awarded by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association in 1944 for a performance in a motion picture released in the previous year....
  
  (Aleandro)