Before this movie was shown, everybody did not treat AIDS as the makers over in the movie and the network that aired it NBC, lost so much money but thirty four million watched the film at a time before Youtube and other social media was invented.
Or having thousands of cable and network TV where there was only three networks at the time.
Aidan Quinn known for his tough guy roles at the time plays a sensitive portrayal of a gay closeted man lawyer and that he doesn't want to tell his parents about being homosexual as they are old fashioned old school played by the late Ben Gazzara and Gena Rowlands.
Now everybody hears he has AIDS and he is shunned and that he must cope with the disease as a pre-Smallville John Glover plays a patient that briefly tells him about his own struggle to prepare the Quinn character.
AIDS put a face over in humanity at a time when Rock Hudson was the very first case back in the 1980's and died from it.
Really if you may not agree with the lifestyle but it is really rather good. As wished TV movies would humanize stuff like this.
Now AIDS has been very quickly supplanted by cancer, COVID, etc.
Or having thousands of cable and network TV where there was only three networks at the time.
Aidan Quinn known for his tough guy roles at the time plays a sensitive portrayal of a gay closeted man lawyer and that he doesn't want to tell his parents about being homosexual as they are old fashioned old school played by the late Ben Gazzara and Gena Rowlands.
Now everybody hears he has AIDS and he is shunned and that he must cope with the disease as a pre-Smallville John Glover plays a patient that briefly tells him about his own struggle to prepare the Quinn character.
AIDS put a face over in humanity at a time when Rock Hudson was the very first case back in the 1980's and died from it.
Really if you may not agree with the lifestyle but it is really rather good. As wished TV movies would humanize stuff like this.
Now AIDS has been very quickly supplanted by cancer, COVID, etc.