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Magic '85

Country: USA, Language: English, 25 mins

  • Director: Annika Kurnick
  • Writer: Annika Kurnick; Greg Wayne
  • Producer: Mikhail Makeyev

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In the height of the AIDS epidemic, Gabriel, opens his home as a hospice to men dying of the disease. He cares for and helps guide his patients to a conscious death while battling his own needs for life affirmation through anonymous sex in LA's vibrant bathhouse scene.


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MAGIC 85 TRAILER from Aashish D'Mello on Vimeo.

Cast & Characters

Charles Baker as Gabriel;
Andy Bean as Fred;
Halasius Bradford as Cowboy;
Charles Cantrell as Man in shower;
Jeremiah Hein as Men's Bathhouse Patron;
Myron Natwick as Richard;
Monica Quinn as Nurse Betsy;
Leonard Robinson as Trevor;
Michael Q. Schmidt as Naked Sex Bear;
Nick Unger as Teen;
Abhinav Vats as Renaldo;
Ceyair J Wright as Andrey;
Joe Duffy as Men's Bathhouse Patron (uncredited)