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This dramatic story begins with a series of powerful dramas, where a young man is confined to the house for holidays and struggles to reveal his harsh circumstances to his family, who still can not imagine the different circumstances. The young man found no solution but to tell his parents that he had AIDS, which might make things take a different turn.

Genre:

Drama

Actors:

Jamie Chung, Bill Heck, Virginia Madsen, Michael Chiklis, Cory Michael Smith, Ryan Piers Williams, Tina Parker, Alex Nicole McConnell, Marcus DeAnda, David Opegbemi, Aidan Langford, ...»

Director:

Yen Tan

Country:

United States

Release:

2018

IMDb:

7.2

Quality:

Duration:

85 min

Los Angeles Times

This profoundly resonant, smartly understated black-and-white film greatly benefits from more than 30 years worth of sociosexual perspective that reminds us how much has changed, yet how much else has not.

October 23, 2018

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Backseat Mafia

An immaculately drawn drama

December 12, 2018

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Financial Times

Writer-director Yen Tan, expanding a same-subject short film, takes his tale slowly, letting the drama breathe and the cast essay "being" rather than "acting".

December 19, 2018

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New York Times

A moving cinematic sketch of a HIV-infected man living through the height of the plague.

October 25, 2018

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Guardian

It's a beautifully acted film. In the dark days of the epidemic it would surely have been impossible to make a drama so balanced, so compassionately attuned to everyone's feelings.

December 12, 2018

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TheWrap

This is a realistic, discreet, yet exploratory film that earns its tears honestly and scrupulously.

March 16, 2018

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Jaredmobarak.com

[I] appreciate that Tan embraces complexity, flaws, and compassion when he could have ignored them for a bow-tied catharsis.

December 13, 2018

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Variety

All the performances are very good (though one might ask why no one has a regional accent), with stage-trained Smith providing a center of quiet intensity.

June 28, 2018

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indieWire

It is a haunting elegy for a generation of gay men.

March 16, 2018

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The Playlist

The lessons being taught in 1985 are admirable, the performances top-notch, and the filmmaking stellar.

December 05, 2018

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The List

A touching film that becomes both an emotional requiem for a lost generation of gay men and a heartfelt declaration that things could only get better.

December 17, 2018

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RogerEbert.com

1985 feels like a missing minor classic from the decade that preceded the rise of the so-called New Queer Cinema.

October 26, 2018

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