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Summary: Very moving and (thankfully) Somewhat Dated
Review: This film is a wonder for many reasons: beautiful performances, sharp writing and directing, and SAD. When I first saw this - the sobbing in the theater was so intense that I thought I'd have to build an ark to get home. Now, Longtime Companion is still all of those things but a little dated. Advances in medicine haved moved us to a point where AIDS is not an immediate death sentence. Watching this film years later it does play a bit like "And Then There Were None" - but it still works. Watch it and remember if you lived through that era, watch it and be greatful if you did not.
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Summary: DEPRESSING
Review: This film is good, but why in the heck is every gay movie about everyone dropping dead from AIDS? It's depressing.
This film, along with others like "IT'S MY PARTY," and anything else gay-male themed, ends up being about death of all your best friends.
All the lesbian flicks are about women writing, reading, taking english courses and writing some more. With men, they get sick and die.
Why this trend?
LONG TIME COMPANION is good, but prepare to just cry and hope that you're healthy.
Michael
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Summary: Still one of the longtime best...
Review: This is one of the first gay themed movies I ever saw when I was coming out, so I am definitely partial to it. It was also the first movie I ever saw that delt with AIDS, so I was a bit scared since I did not know anything about it at the time. Now that I do know more and have seen the movie again and again, it's still the best. Lots of movies always lose their direction due to the change of events in life or advancement in things like medicine, so those movies fall out of place and just show their age. Longtime Companion is not one of those movies! It's theme is still true today, making it one of the best gay movies ever made.
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Summary: Bold and Beautiful
Review: This is one of the only movies I've seen where gay men are not jokes, and are not depicted as sissies, but as real people, with lives and feelings. It has excellent, moving performances, and I especially love the ending.
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Summary: Superbly acted, compelling drama
Review: This is the best AIDS-related film ever made, and one of the best gay-themed films. It concerns a group of successful, close-knit friends in New York City. The film begins as the first word of the virus begins to show in the press, very slowly, then ends ten years later. The acting in this film is outstanding, and Bruce Davison got an Oscar nomination for his role. There are also some scenes which are so powerful that even some hardened viewers may be moved to tears. There have been some criticisms of this film, most of which are trivial. Examples: all the characters are affluent, attractive white men, and most of them are straight acting. However, that was a box office necessity, and so was the lack of sex scenes. I didn't mind any of those things, and neither will most viewers. There is only one legitimate complaint. That is, there are so many characters and jumps in time that, at times, the story is difficult to follow and character developement suffers. These are the reason I didn't give the film five stars. But this is still a worthy and moving film.
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Summary: Compassionate Story of Our World Coming To Grasp with AIDS
Review: This movie debuted in 1990 during the height of the AIDS crisis. Plagued by 10 years of Republican leadership, our country was still not dealing with this disease head-on. The story, while fictional, is factual in it's portrayal of the horror of AIDS. This was one of the first feature length films to bring the crisis to the big movie screen. The story leads us from the early 80's to the present day, telling the story of a mysterious disease striking hundreds, then thousands. Interwoven are the stories of "real" people, friends and love lost, the painful echo of cries. Very haunting, well done movie. With Bruce Davison ("At First Sight") and an excellent supporting cast. Buy it used, rent it or urge the studio's to re-release it. We need movies like this until,...until there is a cure...
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Summary: Outstanding film
Review: This movie is an early depiction of a close group of gay men in the early 80's at the beginning of the AIDS epidemic. My partner and I love the movie and gay or straight this movie will speak to your heart and open your eyes.
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Summary: Great Movie
Review: This movie is an eloquent and intelligent take on not only the first decade of the AIDS crisis, but on what it is to be gay.
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Summary: Wonderful Movie
Review: This movie is an unquestionable classic tracing the effect of KS (eventually called AIDS) on a small group of friends in the New York City area through the 1980's. It captures the feeling of those frightening first years more completely than any other movie I have seen. It also presents many `normal' gay men who do not fit the stereotypes so many others force them into. I recommend it wholeheartedly to anyone wishing to see a well-written, emotionally charged film about friendship and love during an extremely difficult time.
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Summary: Still Relevent
Review: This moview will make you laugh and cry. It show that love and care that a group can give.
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