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Longtime Companion is a 1989 American romantic drama film directed by Norman René and starring Bruce Davison, Campbell Scott, Patrick Cassidy, and Mary-Louise Parker.The first wide-release theatrical film to deal with the subject of AIDS, the film takes its title from the euphemism The New York Times used during the 1980s to describe the surviving same-sex partner of someone who had died of AIDS.
- $4,609,953
- Greg De Belles
- $3 million
- Stan Wlodkowski, Lydia Dean Pilcher (co-producer)
May 1, 1990 · Longtime Companion: Directed by Norman René. With Campbell Scott, Patrick Cassidy, John Dossett, Mary-Louise Parker. The emergence and devastation of the AIDS epidemic is chronicled in the lives of several gay men living during the 1980s.
- (6K)
- Drama, Romance
- Norman René
- 1990-05-01
May 25, 1990 · Norman Rene's "Longtime Companion" is a film that begins on the day when an obscure story in the New York Times first mentions a disease that seems to be striking homosexual men, and it ends after AIDS has profoundly affected all of their lives - mostly, but not entirely, for the worse. Advertisement.
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Longtime Companion. Longtime Companion is a sensitive ensemble AIDS drama, lensed with sympathy which builds to a moving finale. During the 1980s, a group of gay men and their straight female ...
- (115)
- Norman René
- R
- Bruce Davison
The Normal Heart came before Longtime Companion, originally premiering at the Public Theater in 1985, but when Longtime Companion was released it was considered a cinematic first.
Longtime Companion follows the lives of a small circle of friends from the first mention of the disease in the New York Times in 1981. First referred to as "Gay-Related-Immune-Disorder," we watch the effect of the disease as it devastates the lives of our protagonists. Jumping between Manhattan and Fire Island, vignettes carry us from the it ...
May 11, 1990 · Longtime Companion has eight major characters (four of whom will die) and spans nearly a decade, beginning on July 3rd, 1981, when the New York Times reported on the outbreak of a rare cancer ...
