Love! Valour! Compassion!
Gregory invites 7 friends to his secluded home: Bobby, couple Art and Perry, John, Ramon, AIDS-afflicted James, HIV+ Buzz. They spend the summer navigating relationships, illnesses, and personal dynamics.
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"Adapted from a hit play by Terence McNally and utilizing most of the original stage cast, this film cannot hide its theatrical roots... nor should it. This is a sweet and sad story set against a perfect summer at a perfect country estate in upstate New York (?) that shows the lives of 8 gay men as they come to terms with AIDS, death, love, compassion, and the thin bonds of friendship that hold them together. Their summer idyll is a microcosm that, apart from the real world we never see, touches us all because it is their humanity that dominates this story. That one is a dancer, a lawyer, a c..."
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All of the actors recreate their stage roles with the exception of Nathan Lane, who was replaced by Jason Alexander. Lane was, at the time, tied to the Broadway revival of "A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum," which ran between 1996-1998 and relied heavily upon his drawing power to meet its weekly nut.
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Gregory invites 7 friends to his secluded home: Bobby, couple Art and Perry, John, Ramon, AIDS-afflicted James, HIV+ Buzz. They spend the summer navigating relationships, illnesses, and personal dynamics.