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- Reputedly made for a paltry $23,000 by underground LA filmmaker Gregg Araki, THE LIVING END is more admirable as a sheer technical feat of filmmaking than as a sustained dramatic narrative. It still makes worthwhile viewing, particularly for gay audiences starved of images.
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A drifter (Mike Dytri) and a film critic (Craig Gilmore) hit the road as fugitives and as gay lovers who are HIV positive.
- (71)
- Drama, LGBTQ+
- Gregg Araki
The Living End Reviews. All Critics. Top Critics. All Audience. Verified Audience. Dave Giannini InSession Film. The Living End challenges to the very end, leaving us unsure of both...
The Living End is a 1992 American comedy-drama film by Gregg Araki. Described by some critics as a "gay Thelma & Louise," the film is an early entry in the New Queer Cinema genre. The Living End was nominated for a Grand Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival in 1992.
- Gregg Araki
- Gregg Araki
- Jon Gerrans, Marcus Hu, Jim Stark
- Gregg Araki
Coming after too many years of watching gay men and women as victims on the silver screen, The Living End was both a bolt of lightning and a breath of fresh air. Though sometimes amateurish, and at times featuring less-than thespian acting, it was nevertheless hip and gleeful in its anarchy.
The Living End takes place at the tail end of decades of tolerated genocide, of purposeful inaction by a United States Government which had determined that the unchecked spread of AIDS was in its best interests as it primarily affected gay men, IV drug users, and 'The Third World'.
- (16.7K)
- Desperate Pictures, Strand Releasing
- Gregg Araki
Aug 21, 1992 · The Living End: Directed by Gregg Araki. With Mike Dytri, Craig Gilmore, Mark Finch, Mary Woronov. Luke is a gay hustler. Jon is a movie critic. Both are HIV positive. They go on a hedonistic, dangerous journey, their motto "Fuck the world".
Aug 21, 1992 · As a portrait of late-millennial nihilism, The Living End rejects the sympathetic bent of every afflicted-by-AIDS portrayal before or since. Read More By Peter Debruge FULL REVIEW
