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Longtime Companion (1989)
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Longtime Companion (1989)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: 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-couldn't-happen-to-me mentality of the early days of the disease to the invasive effect it has had on all of our lives, today. The title of the film comes from the New York Times' refusal to acknowledge homosexual relationships in their obituary section during this period. Instead, survivors were referred to as "Longtime Companions" of the deceased
Style: sad, independent film, touching, emotional, realistic, art house, lgbt cinema, weeping, eros, romantic drama ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: aids, gay, hiv, politics, friendship, lgbtq, courage, gay couple, gay interest, love, gay slur, glbt, hospital, homosexuality, disease, protest, virus, lgbtqi, lgbt, terminal illness, death, illness, male nudity, drinking, social commentary ...
Time: 80s, year 1989, 20th century, year 1985, year 1986, year 1987, year 1983 ...
Place: new york, usa, manhattan new york city, san francisco, united states, manhattan, new york city, united states of america

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