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Love! Valour! Compassion!

Country: USA, Language: English, 108 mins

  • Director: Joe Mantello
  • Writer: Terrence McNally
  • Producer: Doug Chapin; Diane Conn

CGiii Comment

Beautifully tender...with a few sharp edges.

It is important...in that, it is a film that begins to investigate the hopeful prognosis for PWAs.

An emotional rollercoaster...with a glimmer of hope.


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The(ir) Blurb...

Gregory invites seven friends to spend the summer at his large, secluded 19th-century home in upstate New York. The seven are: Bobby, Gregory's "significant other," who is blind but who loves to explore the home's garden using his sense of touch; Art and Perry, two "yuppies" who drive a Volvo and who celebrate their 14th anniversary together that summer; John, a dour expatriate Briton who loathes his twin brother James; Ramon, John's "companion," who is physically attracted to Bobby and immediately tries to seduce the blind man; James, a cheerful soul who is in the advanced stages of AIDS; and Buzz, a fan of traditional Broadway musicals who is dealing with his own HIV-positive status.

Cast & Characters

Jason Alexander as Buzz Hauser;
Stephen Spinella as Perry Sellars;
Stephen Bogardus as Gregory Mitchell;
Randy Becker as Ramon Fornos;
John Benjamin Hickey as Arthur Pape;
Justin Kirk as Bobby Brahms;
John Glover as John Jeckyll, James Jeckyll