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It's My Party
- Director: Randal Kleiser
- Writer: Randal Kleiser
- Producer: Robert Fitzpatrick; Gregory Hinton
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From the director of Grease - no less.
This slipped under the radar and will split everyone...
The hard cynics will call it sentimental crap, the religious will condemn is for promoting suicide and those that cry...will cry for a long time.
The film is well-intentioned and deeply personal - making it difficult to watch simply because it asks what you would do in the same situation.
Heartfelt and uncomplicated.
Trailer...
The(ir) Blurb...
"You won't leave me, will you?" Nick asks Brandon shortly after revealing to him the results of his last blood test for HIV. "I don't want to die alone." In spite of Brandon's protestations, the two soon find the love they had shared for many years in ruins. One year after their breakup, Nick is confronted with a ravaged immune system and a CT Scan and lab values which, along with his worsening forgetfulness, clenches the diagnosis of Progressive Multifocal Leukoencephalopathy (PML) -- a condition he has seen claim his friends and one which he vows will not take him. Due to the aggressive nature of the disease, he has only a few days of conscious life remaining. His plan, he announces to family and "extended family," is to voluntarily end his life himself before the disease renders him unrecognizable to those he loves and he, in turn, is unable to recognize them.
Cast & Characters
Margaret Cho as Charlene Lee;
Bruce Davison as Rodney Bingham;
Lee Grant as Amalia Stark;
Devon Gummersall as Andrew Bingham;
Gregory Harrison as Brandon Theis;
Marlee Matlin as Daphne Stark;
Roddy McDowall as Damian Knowles;
Olivia Newton-John as Lina Bingham;
Bronson Pinchot as Monty Tipton;
Paul Regina as Tony Zamara;
George Segal as Paul Stark;
Eric Roberts as Nick Stark;
Steve Antin as Zack Phillips;
Dimitra Arliss as Fanny Kondos;
Christopher Atkins as Jack Allen