It's My Party

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Summary: It makes you think!
Review: Its my party is a real attention getter, it puts your life in perspecktive. You can't watch this movie without evaluating your own life and think how we don't apreciate ower lives enough. I have seen a lot of movies and this one of the good ones.

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Summary: HEART WRENCHING!!!
Review: After watching this film, my partner and I sat and cried for 2 hours as we held and comforted each other. A must see film. Wonderful direction, filming and acting. See it with someone and bring your tissue.

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Summary: BEST BOOK
Review: As a young gay man that is in a relation ship ,i find that this is a real look of what could happen to one of us if we get sick, I am also close to my mother and this movie made me realy think about how much i love her, and every one around me, the move was every good, hope to see more movie and book like this one END

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Summary: Emotionally Breathtaking!!!
Review: I've not even read the story but my heart has already made its conclusions. I have been desarately looking for the book or movie and have yet to recover a copy. I know by the advertisements I've seen it surely is a movie not to be missed. The intricate designs of the human nature is drawn out so delicately and done so brilliantly. How do I know this? Cuase I live it. I may not be dying but I'm am a young homosexual struggling in today's society looking for the right place for me finding none; only hate. I see this work, this life experience as a candle in all this darkness. There are so many candles but this has been the brightest for me! END

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Summary: If you have questioned Eric Roberts talents be4, C this!
Review: What a wonderfully written, beautifully acted movie.It is thought provoking & touching, raising questions about Aids,euthanasia & death with dignity.Eric Roberts, in a departure role for him as a usual bad boy of film, gives an OUTSTANDING performance as a victim of Aids who wants to die with dignity, so throws a party with all of his closest friends & family members. His ex lover who had previously left him since he was having difficulty dealing with the illness, ends up at the party, & they come to terms with their break up, & the inevitable. Fantastic performances abound in this movie: Gregory Harrison,Lee Grant,Olivia Newton John,Bronson Pinchot (Who provides the comic relief), Margaret Cho, Marlee Matlin, & of course, the ever fabulously talented Roddy MacDowell. I was worried that this movie would be terribly depressing...I had trouble with Philadelphia.Though that movie was well written & acted, I found it oppressive. 'It's My Party' is fantasic!You'll laugh, you'll cry, & the soundtrack is wonderful.Reminded me a bit of 'The Big Chill' because of the soundtrack, but this film is so thoroughly entertaining.'It's About Time'! Eric Roberts got a good role to showcase his amazing talents. What an incredibly talented actor! Just see it!

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Summary: Uneven and Slow..But Worth a Look
Review: I caught this film the other night on Showtime and found it at once moving and frustrating. The story involves a gay man, Nick (Roberts) who decides to commit suicide before his AIDS symptoms take their ultimate toll. He gathers his closest friends and family for a two-day "party" which is really a long goodbye. Among the partygoers are his estranged parents (Lee Grant and George Segal), former lover (Harrison), and closest friends (Bronson Pinchot, Olivia Newton-John, and Margaret Cho). Like the M*A*S*H finale from 1983, the cast says goodbye about 200 times, most annoyingly while Dolly Parton's "I Will Always Love You" plays over and over. Roberts looks too healthy to be on his deathbed, while Pinchot and Cho fall into stereotypical bitchy charicatures. Lee Grant is splendid, however, and Harrison (surprisingly) gives the film's best performance as the guilty but ultimately worthy ex-boyfriend of Nick who finally makes peace as Nick ends his life. Better than the wretched "In the Gloaming" but not up to the tele-film "An Early Frost."


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Summary: Avoid this movie like the, well...you know.
Review: I want the two hours I wasted watching this piece of tripe back! 45 minutes into this maudlin, didactic, hyper-melodramatic film I was screaming "Die already!" at the screen. A must-see for film students, if only to show them how NOT to put a film together. Save your money and donate it to a worthy AIDS-relief charity. Don't spend it on this garbage.

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Summary: DEPRESSING AND DEPRESSING
Review: This film was a HUGE state of depression. The main character is sick with...guess what?....yes! AIDS.

Sure, that's like all "reality" gay flicks. Right...all gays have AIDS, or we know someone with AIDS.

Well, not all of us do.

So the main character dies with dignity. He kills himself with pills. Doesn't even grind them up to avoid the potential "pill ball" effect. Downs everything with alcohol, everyone cries, and more reveal they are sick and probably going to do the same.

IT'S THEIR PARTY, and I'd rather not be invited.

Michael

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Summary: Beautiful Movie.
Review: What a stunning movie! Never has a movie made me laugh and cry so much at the same time. A real touching movie about the reality of AIDS.

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Summary: Don't waste your time
Review: IT'S MY PARTY (USA 1996): In the last few days before an AIDS-related brain tumor renders him insensible, a young LA designer (Eric Roberts) decides to end his own life, though not before throwing a final joyous bash for family and loved ones. However, the occasion is strained by the arrival of Roberts' former lover (Gregory Harrison), seeking reconciliation at the eleventh hour...

Though heartfelt and moving, Randal Kleiser's powerful film - inspired by actual events - feels a little fragmented and plays like a reunion of his closest showbiz friends (the cast is a veritable who's-who of familiar faces), anchored firmly by Harrison and Roberts in the central roles. Their former relationship is outlined briefly at the start of the film, too briefly for the subsequent break-up to register as anything more than a minor event, though their love for one another is conveyed with real strength and conviction. Roddy McDowall essays the voice of conscience during a brief cameo appearance in which he questions the ethics of suicide, but his character's conservative views are given short shrift by Kleiser's defiant screenplay, which uses a sprinkling of mordant humor to keep mawkishness at bay (at one point, Roberts and his best friend [Bronson Pinchot, camping it up with abandon] launch into a rousing rendition of "It's my party/And I'll die if I want to"!). Viewers are advised, however, that the final twenty minutes are relentlessly, heartbreakingly sad. Amongst the high-profile supporting players, look fast for Nina Foch, Sally Kellerman, Greg Louganis, Steve Antin and a virtually unrecognizable Dennis Christopher and Christopher Atkins.

Sound and picture on MGM/UA's DVD are uniformly fine, and the extras include extended/deleted scenes, a trailer, and an audio commentary with director, cast and crew which goes into greater detail about the 1992 events which inspired the movie.

109m 35s
1.85:1 / 16:9 enhanced
DVD soundtrack: Dolby 5.1
Theatrical soundtracks: DTS
Optional English subtitles and closed captions
Region 1