Cast:Campbell Scott, Patrick Cassidy, John Dossett, Mary-Louise Parker, Stephen Caffrey, Tanya Berezin, Welker White, Michael Piontek, Joyce Reehling, Bruce Davison, Mark Lamos, Dermot Mulroney, Michael Schoeffling, Brian Cousins, Marceline Hugot, Margo Skinner, Eric Gutierrez, Brad O'Hare, Philip Moon, Hazel Medina, Annie Golden, Freda Foh Shen, Alexandra Neil, Kelly Connell, Rajika Puri, Brent Barrett, Keith Charles, Dan Butler, Robi Martin, Robert Joy
Synopsis
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.
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