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| ACTORS: | Parker Posey, Don McKellar, Olympia Dukakis |
| CATEGORY: | DVD |
| DIRECTOR: | Thom Fitzgerald |
| THEATRICAL RELEASE DATE: | 01 January, 2002 |
| MANUFACTURER: | Thinkfilm Llc |
| MPAA RATING: | R (Restricted) |
| FEATURES: | Color |
| TYPE: | Mystery / Suspense |
| MEDIA: | DVD |
| # OF MEDIA: | 1 |
| UPC: | 821575505956 |
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Customer Reviews of The Event
"It's My Party" it ain't Similar to It's My Party, but with only a fraction of poignancy and emotion. The segmented flashbacks don't allow any momentum to build up, and we don't get to know the characters well enough to truly care. There were far too many comic-relief type scenes that were largely inappropriate in both timing and content, and I also resented the gratuitous 9-11 related images that were used throughout.
Brilliant! A Celebration Of Life...
A superb cast including Olympia Dukakis, Tony Award Winner Brent Carver and Parker Posey (just to name a few). Thom Fitzgerald ("The Hanging Garden," "Beefcake") takes us through amazing depths of emotions. You'll laugh hysterically -- and you'll cry. Definitely one of the most touching movie endings I have ever seen. It's too bad this flick didn't find a bigger audience in theaters. Highly recommended.
An important and impressive film
THE EVENT came and went in the theatres like some spectral ghost which, despite its trappings, failed to serve notice of its importance not only as a social comment but as a showcase for some excellent talent. Director Thom Fitzgerald deserves great respect (and most certainly an audience!) for the brave statement of his film and the facile utilization of some extraordinary talent. The "Event" of the title refers to a final party for Matt (Don McKellar), a young man blessed with many friends and family, who has decided to end his deteriorating life of struggle with AIDS with a suicide finale, gaged to be abetted by those closest to him. The glitch comes (after the death) when detective "Nick" DeVivo (Parker Posey) decides that assisted suicide is a crime that must be punished and proceeds to investigate all of the people involved. It is this investigation that introduces us to Matt's entourage - a glitteringly excellent cast of family (Olympia Dukakis as his mother, Brent Carver as his partner) and friends, which include roles for Sarah Polly, Jane Leeves, and an actor who makes a Drag Queen performance one of the strongest roles since Torch Song Trilogy. Through a series of thoughtful flashbacks and flash-forwards we are allowed insight into each of these characters and to the reality of exactly how Matt's final wishes were completed - a tender and wonderful surprise ending. This story is told with a simultaneous celebration of life and a warm tenderness for the meaning of love in all its phases and forms, all in a setting of the persistent ravaging plague of AIDS that continues to deprive the world of treasured citizens and spirits. Fitzgerald is able to accomplish this without resorting to the maudlin, the banal, or the tempting "somewhere over the rainbow" saccharine tone that often accompanies films of this nature. This is a remarkable achievement and in every way this movie stands tall. Highly recommended.