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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 · A film that chronicles the lives of several gay men affected by the AIDS epidemic in the 1980s. The title refers to the way newspapers used to list the partners of the deceased in obituaries.
- (6K)
- Drama, Romance
- Norman René
- 1990-05-01
May 25, 1990 · A film that chronicles the lives of several homosexual men before and during the AIDS crisis. Roger Ebert praises its realistic and emotional portrayal of friendship, love, loss and courage.
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
Longtime Companion, which was written by playwright Craig Lucas, both starts and ends at the beach. In the final, iconic scene three of the movie's protagonists—one of the central couples and ...
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 ...
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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 ...
