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| ACTORS: | Patrick Cassidy, Stephen Caffrey, Bruce Davison, Brian Cousins |
| CATEGORY: | DVD |
| DIRECTOR: | Norman René |
| THEATRICAL RELEASE DATE: | 01 January, 1990 |
| MANUFACTURER: | Mgm/Ua Studios |
| MPAA RATING: | R (Restricted) |
| FEATURES: | Color, Closed-captioned, Widescreen |
| TYPE: | Feature Film-drama |
| MEDIA: | DVD |
| # OF MEDIA: | 1 |
| UPC: | 027616857705 |
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Customer Reviews of Longtime Companion
A movie that rips and moves your heart!!! If you have seen 'Philadelphia', you need to see this movie. 'Longtime Companion' is perhaps the first film to put a human face on the AIDS epidemic.
Longtime Companion follows the lives of a small circle of friends from the first mention of the disease in the New York Times in 1980. First referred to as "Gay-Related-Immune-Disorder," we watch the effect of the disease as it devastates the lives of our protagonists. Jumping between Manhattan and Fire Island, vignettes carry us from the it-couldn't-happen-to-me mentality of the early days of the disease to the invasive effect it has had on all of our lives, today. The title of the film comes from the New York Times' refusal to acknowledge homosexual relationships in their obituary section during this period. Instead, survivors were referred to as "Longtime Companions" of the deceased.
Whether Gay or Straight, you must see this movie. It will confirm that no matter your thoughts on lifestyles, Everyone has the right to live and love.
Truly great film! The "Dark Victory" of gay films!
Bette Davis may still be making gay men weep when she dies in Dark Victory, but this does the same thing only with the "gay man" in the lead.
The acting in this film is superb (Bruce Davidson was nominated for an Oscar). The script is excellent. The story, sadly, is all too memorable, historical, believable, and true to life. This is a film that makes you laugh, makes you cry, and then stomps on your heart for good measure.
I was just coming out when the first whispered rumors of GRID first hit the streets. I was in Atlanta and the word came from NY. We knew it could never reach us. How wrong we were!
This film takes me back to those first carefree days of my "out" life and then walks me back through an accurate account of my life thereafter historically. I am fortunate. I never got HIV or AIDS, but I lost many many friends who did.
Every time I watch this film, the last scene makes me bawl my eyes out, remembering the wonderful friends I've lost to this horrible disease.
Watch this film and take it to heart that there is something to fear in having unprotected sex! Mandatory for young gay men and recommended for parents of the same, so they can support their gay sons.
Dark and Light
This drama is filled with possitive messages but has a darkness to it that will make you angry, in a productive way.