Bruce Greenwood and Madeleine Stowe are toplining "Saving Milly," a CBS movie based on an emotional difficult true story.

Based on political journalist Morton Kondracke's best selling book, "Saving Milly" focuses on Kondracke (Greenwood) and his activist wife Milly (Stowe). The drama follows Mort's fight with alcoholism, but mostly shows how their family copes with Milly's battle with Parkinson's Disease and how it changes Mort from a driven journalist into a dedicated caregiver and advocate.

Jeff Arch ("Sleepless in Seattle") wrote the screenplay and the project is directed by Dan Curtis. Production on the movie recently began in Vancouver.

Greenwood, last seen on the big screen in "I, Robot" and "Being Julia," has been an active TV movie performer in efforts like A&E's "The Riverman" and FX's "Meltdown," both 2004 releases. Stowe is best known for features including "Revenge," "The Last of the Mohicans" and "Twelve Monkeys."

"Saving Milly" is CBS' first collaboration with Magna Global Entertainment, an industry leader in advertiser-supplied programming. Johnson & Johnson, The Kellogg Company, Pfizer Consumer Healthcare and Unilever, members of the Family Friendly Programming Forum, are sponsoring the movie.