...First Do No Harm poster

Movie · 1997

...First Do No Harm

“She went looking for help... and found a miracle”

Released 16 February 1997 90 min Drama / TV Movie More from 1997 → IMDb ↗ · Letterboxd ↗ · TMDB ↗

When Lori Reimuller learns that her young son Robbie has epilepsy, she first trusts the judgment of the hospital staff in how best to bring it under control. As Robbie's health slides radically downhill, however, she becomes frustrated and desperate, and so does her own research into the existing literature on treatments. When she decides to try an alternative treatment called the Ketogenic Diet, devised long ago by a doctor from Johns Hopkins, she is met with narrow-minded resistance from Robbie's doctor, who is prepared to take legal action to prevent Lori from removing him from the hospital.

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How old were they?

Oldest first
Sean McCann
61
Fred Ward
as Dave Reimuller
54
Leo Burmester
as Bob Purdue
53
Meryl Streep
as Lori Reimuller
47
Tom Butler
as Dr. Jim Peterson
46
Philip Akin
46
Margo Martindale
as Marjean
45
Damir Andrei
42
Philip Williams
42
Allison Janney
as Dr. Melanie Abbasac
37
Oni Faida Lampley
as Marsha Williams
37
Mairon Bennett
as Lynne Reimuller
21
Michael Yarmush
as Mark Reimuller
14
Seth Adkins
as Robbie Reimuller
7
Millicent Kelly
as Self
Unknown
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The numbers

Computed from the cast above
54years between the oldest and youngest billed
61Sean McCann — oldest on the call sheet
7Seth Adkins — youngest billed
39average age of the credited cast
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