Skip to main content
Filmarian
All films
Poster for Right to Die
Sign in to rateBe the first to rate
+ write a review
Released
1987 · FILM

Right to Die

Directed by
Runtime
90 min
TV MovieDrama

Synopsis

Emily Bauer, portrayed by Raquel Welch, is a successful psychologist with a happy home life who is suddenly diagnosed with ALS, also known as "Lou Gehrig's Disease." Initially determined to fight for her life, she becomes increasingly incapacitated as the disease progresses, eventually resembling a human vegetable. At this point, Welch's character begs her husband, played by Michael Gross, to help her die.

Related titles

No curated related titles yet. Use the edit affordance to add "More from this director", "Same franchise", or "Adaptation source material" entries — every change goes through the wiki review queue.

How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 20

These are the principals we have on file — the full crew ran to the hundreds. Every film this size was made by far more hands than any credits list ever names.

Why a floor?

This is a minimum, not a total. We only count the credits we’ve captured so far, and coverage is uneven — a blockbuster might show a few hundred names while another of the same size shows a couple dozen. The real crews all ran into the thousands. The number here only grows as full credits are enriched — so we frame it as a floor, never a headcount.

Craft leads on file

Edited by James GallowayShot by Bernd HeinlScored by Brad FiedelDesigned by Dena Roth

Community tags

Be the first to tag this page — tags appear right away. Try a theme, capability, or subject (e.g. WWII, heist, slow burn, time travel, A24).

Help complete this page

We’re missing mpaa rating, logline. Sign in to add what you know.