3 Needles
- Director: Thom Fitzgerald
- Writer: Thom Fitzgerald
- Producer: Mark Bennett; Thom Fitzgerald
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Disparate characters, disparate lives.
It goes from beauty to the downright bizarre and back again.
AIDS viewed from the perspectives of greed and poverty in 3 different continents.
A very ambitious project for Thom Fitzgerald.
It is beautifully shot and it grabs your attention quickly - but lets go - too soon after.
A great shame...because, it could have been a remarkable film.
Instead, it's a good film...but, the pulled punches are not as hard as they should/could have been.
Trailer...
The(ir) Blurb...
Sister Hilde narrates three separates stories, each directly concerning the AIDS crisis. From a Montréal based order, Sister Hilde, Sister Mary and Clara, a novice, have just arrived in Africa to work as nurses in a plantation's medical center. They learn that legend there has it that having sex with a virgin will transfer infection out from oneself. Because of this legend, an infant girl is raped. Clara, who also learns the main cause of the virus' spread within the plantation, does whatever she can to ensure that Hallyday, the plantation owner, flexes his economic power to right the wrongs on the plantation. Back in Montréal, a porn actor named Denys has been cheating on his mandatory monthly HIV tests, using his father's blood to pass as his own. As he believes he has been exposed to the virus, the negative results will allow him to continue working.
Cast & Characters
Mabel Adams as Nahmnru, the African Grandmother;
Asckt as Tea Picker;
Shawn Ashmore as Denys, the Porn Actor;
Caroline Aspirot as Stripper;
Nontombi Bovana as Grandchild;
Rob Burns as Broker;
Stockard Channing as Olive Cowie, the Porn Actor's Mother;
Chin Han as Soldier Xuan;
Tanabadee Chokpikultong as Tong Sam, the Rice Farmer;
Yotaka Cheukaew as Qi, the Rice Farmer's Daughter;
Eric Codana as Abakeweta;
Catherine Colvey as Clara the Novice's Mother;
Kathryn Costello as Tourist;
Steven Crowder as Depanneur Manager;
Douglas Cwaba as Hermit