Eleven years after chronicling the sad fate of American farmers in their superb and wrenching debut, TROUBLESOME CREEK: A MIDWESTERN (20050, filmmakers Steven Ascher and Jeanne Jordan profile the Heywoods, another American family facing a very different kind of crisis: The slow death of their 29-year-old son Stephen Heywood from Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis. More commonly known as Lou Gehrig's Disease after the famed Yankee first baseman who succumbed to the devastating neurological syndrome in 1941, ALS destroys the neurons responsible for voluntary muscular activity and gradually leads to a withering atrophy. Eventually breathing becomes impossible, and while ALS ...
Released:
2006
Rated:
NR
Length:
87 mins