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An Early Frost is a 1985 American made-for-television drama film. It was the first major film with major motion picture stars, Aidan Quinn, Gena Rowlands, Ben Gazzara, and Sylvia Sidney, broadcast on a major television network, NBC, to deal with the topic of AIDS.
- NBC Productions
- John Kander
Nov 11, 1985 · An Early Frost: Directed by John Erman. With Gena Rowlands, Ben Gazzara, Sylvia Sidney, Aidan Quinn. A young lawyer hasn't told his parents about his homosexuality. Now he must tell them--at a time when the diagnosis was still a death sentence--that he has AIDS.
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- 5 min
- John Erman
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Successful lawyer Michael Pierson (Aidan Quinn) is gay, but he has always hidden this part of his life from his mother, Katherine (Gena Rowlands), father, Nick (Ben Gazzara), and grandmother...
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- Emanuel Levy
- TV-14
- John Erman
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Brief Synopsis. A successful young lawyer, Michael Pierson, is tired and reticent when he returns home to celebrate his parents' thirtieth wedding anniversary. He is later diagnosed as having AIDS, and afterwards breaks the shocking news to his family that he has the disease -- and that he is homosexual. The televi.
- John Erman
- Bill Paxton
Nov 10, 2010 · Into this maelstrom of myths and fears came the NBC television movie An Early Frost, broadcast the evening of November 11, 1985. Michael Pierson (Aidan Quinn) is a successful Chicago lawyer...
- Jay Blotcher
1 hr 40 mins. Drama. NR. Watchlist. Story of a homosexual lawyer (Aidan Quinn) stricken with AIDS and the reactions of his parents (Ben Gazzara, Gena Rowlands). Beatrice: Sylvia Sidney. Peter: D.W....
Sep 15, 2016 · September 15, 2016. On Nov. 11, 1985, NBC made history with the premiere of An Early Frost, the first feature-length film on either the big or small screen to address the ongoing AIDS...