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Love! Valour! Compassion! is a 1997 drama film directed by Joe Mantello and written by Terrence McNally, adapted from McNally's play of the same name. It revolves around eight gay men who gather for three summer weekends at a lakeside house in Dutchess County, New York, where they relax, reflect, and plan for survival in an era plagued by AIDS.
May 16, 1997 · Love! Valour! Compassion!: Directed by Joe Mantello. With Jason Alexander, Stephen Spinella, Stephen Bogardus, Randy Becker. Gregory invites seven friends to spend the summer at his large, secluded 19th-century home in upstate New York.
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- Comedy, Drama, Romance
- Joe Mantello
- 1997-05-16
In its structure, Terrence McNally's "Love! Valour! Compassion!'' is as old-fashioned as a 19th century three-act play. A group of friends meets for a June weekend in a country house. In midsummer, they meet again. At summer's end, they meet a third time. In the first act the characters are introduced and their problems are established. In the second, there is conflict and crisis. In the third ...
Love! Valour! Compassion! premiered Off-Broadway at the Manhattan Theatre Club on October 11, 1994, running for 72 performances. The production transferred to Broadway to the Walter Kerr Theatre on February 14, 1995, and closed on September 17, 1995, after 248 performances and 28 previews. Directed by Joe Mantello, the cast featured Nathan Lane ...
- Terrence McNally
- 1995
Nov 7, 2017 · In Terrence McNally's Tony Award winner Love! Valour! Compassion!, the secret to keeping the story vital and the humor fresh was retaining the original award-winning cast and adding the brilliant of Jason Alexander (Seinfeld) as the witty, show-tune-singing Buzz.
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Love! Valour! Compassion! By STEPHEN HOLDEN . enderness expressed among friends and between lovers is one of the most difficult qualities to dramatize without stumbling into a quagmire of tear-drenched schmaltz. One reason the film version of Terrence McNally's play ' Love! Valour!
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Set in and about a sprawling, airy Victorian house on a private lake--eight male friends, all of them gay, leave the city behind for three simple weekends of rest and relaxation. But that's the least of what they experience. Over the next three summer holiday weekends--Memorial Day, Fourth of July and Labor Day--these eight friends will...
