I Remember Me

(2000)

★ 5.8 IMDb · 6 votes

Genres: Documentary

Year: 2000

Runtime: 74 мин

Country: United States of America

Director: Kim A. Snyder

Cast: Kim A. Snyder, Faye Austin, Jan Armstrong, Michelle Akers

Plot

In 1984-85, people at Lake Tahoe fell ill with flu symptoms, but they didn't get better. Medical literature documents similar outbreaks: in 1934 at LA county hospital, in 1948-49 in Iceland, in 1956 in Punta Gorda, Florida. The malady now has a name, chronic fatigue syndrome, and filmmaker Kim Snyder, who suffered from the disease for several years, tells her story and talks to victims and their families, and to physicians and researchers: is it viral, it is psychosomatic, is it one disease or several (a syndrome) ; what's the CDC doing about it; what's it like to have a disease that's not yet understood? Her inquiry takes her to Punta Gorda and to a high-school graduation.