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6.3/10 • 66

1995-08-181h 32m

ComedyDramaRomance

Love is an adventure when one of you is sure... and the other is positive.

Jeffrey, a gay man living in New York City with an overwhelming fear of contracting AIDS, concludes that being celibate is the only option to protect himself. As fate would have it, shortly after his declaration of a sex-free existence, he meets the handsome Steve Howard, his dream man -- except for his HIV-positive status. Facing this dilemma, Jeffrey turns to his best friend and an outrageous priest for guidance.

Directors
Christopher Ashley
Editors
Cara Silverman

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  1. Steven Weber

    Steven Weber

    Jeffrey

  2. Patrick Stewart

    Patrick Stewart

    Sterling

  3. Michael T. Weiss

    Michael T. Weiss

    Steve Howard

  4. Bryan Batt

    Bryan Batt

    Darius

  5. Nathan Lane

    Nathan Lane

    Father Dan

  6. Sigourney Weaver

    Sigourney Weaver

    Debra Moorhouse

  7. Olympia Dukakis

    Olympia Dukakis

    Mrs. Marcangelo

  8. Robert Klein

    Robert Klein

    Skip Winkley

  9. Christine Baranski

    Christine Baranski

    Ann Marwood Bartle

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CinemaSerf

Apr 16, 2025

6/10

I kept expecting Sir Ian McKellen to pop up here to compliment the entertainingly camp contribution from his best pal Patrick Stewart in this otherwise rather unremarkable story. It’s all about “Jeffrey” (Steven Weber) who is one of those actors-cum-waiters who merrily enjoys the fruits of his New York existence until the arrival of AIDS turn him into a sexually neurotic monk. No more nookie for him, it’s all about his career - and, yep, that just frustrates the poor man. Things aren’t exactly helped by his flamboyant pal “Sterling” (Stewart) who has a much younger and HIV+ boyfriend “Darius” (Bryan Batt) who keeps telling him that he needs to get laid more. Then he bumps into “Steve” (Michael T. Weiss) and they take to each other. Snag? Well it turns out that “Steve” is also positive and so “Jeffrey” is now faced with quite a dilemma. On the plus side, this drama does showcase the extent to which many gay people donned a psychological, if not actually a physical, suit of armour when the AIDS epidemic struck. Terrified of the consequences of their previous license and/or determined never to take risks again - however that “risk” might be defined or apply, practically, to their life and lifestyle. On that front, Weber does OK and at times the whole thing comes across quite touchingly, but sadly there’s too much emphasis on the stereotypes and the writing takes refuge all too often in the realms of that kind of gay comedy that Armistead Maupin might have written on a bad day. It’s all a question of living life to the full or living in fear, but somehow any semblance of sensible and responsible compromise is not on the agenda here and so it all rather falls between a predictable set of tram lines. It has it’s moments, but in the end it’s just so-so.

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Status
Released
Original Language
English
Budget
--
Revenue
$3,487,767.00
Keywords
new york cityaidscelibacybased on play or musicalhivpriestfatemanhattan, new york city1990sgay friendmale male relationshipgay theme