Emmy Award®-winning actor Michael Imperioli (“The Sopranos”) and Academy Award®-winning actress Ellen Burstyn (“The Fountain,” “The Exorcist”) star in the two-hour television event motion picture “Oprah Winfrey Presents: Mitch Albom’s For One More Day,” premiering SUNDAY, DECEMBER 9 (9:00-11:00 p.m., ET) on the ABC Television Network. The production, which wrapped this week, was shot primarily on location in Connecticut.
In the film, based on Albom’s bestselling book For One More Day, Imperioli plays Chick Benetto, a broken-down former baseball player who has collapsed into alcoholism and despair.
He returns one night to his small
hometown with plans to take his life. At the final moment,
he is magically granted one more day with his departed
mother, Posey Benetto, played by Burstyn, who illuminates
the secrets of both their lives and shows him a way
to redemption. Samantha Mathis (“The Punisher,”
“American Psycho”) and Scott Cohen (“Law
& Order: Trial by Jury,” upcoming show “The
Return of Jezebel James”) also star. Michael Imperioli’s
son, Vadim Imperioli, plays the role of the younger
Chick in his acting film debut.
