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Longtime Companion
from MGM (Video & DVD)
starring Stephen Caffrey, Patrick Cassidy, Brian Cousins, Bruce Davison, Campbell Scott
directed by Norman René

Features:

• Closed-captioned
• Color
• DVD-Video
• Letterboxed

Customer Reviews:

• Avg. Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0

• very touching movie
  This is a very sensitive and touching movie I loved it. I frist watched it some 18 years ago I think, I was very touched by it.

• Excellent daring movie
  
  This movie really touched me so much.
  it makes you want to be more daring in your life by accepting who we are. And ofcourse be proud about it.
  I loved the actors, they were amazing in depecting the emotions and hard situation.
  I wish this epidemic called AIDS will be wiped from our lives for ever.

• Captures the times beautifully
  "Longtime Companion", the first full-length chronicle of the AIDS crisis in the 1980s, remains as fresh a look today as when it was made in 1990. Beginning with the discovery of a "gay cancer" in 1981, the film follows a group of loosely-knit friends on a year-to-year basis throughout the decade, and does so with empathy and humor. There are many fine performances, including a moving one by a young Campbell Scott.
  "Longtime Companion" seeks to reflect but also to educate, reminding viewers that the... more info

• Dreary And Not All That Watchable
  I respect the ultra-realism of Longtime Companion, and have no doubt this landmark production accurately conveys the horror that is HIV/AIDS, and tells how this plague arrived unforeseen in the 1980's, ending what had been a golden age of American gay existence, taking so much life and causing so much misery in that community and beyond, yet not only does a portrayal of that tragedy make for a dreary viewing experience, but Longtime Companion isn't a movie with much more to it than its central message.... more info

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