Longtime Companion

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• Genre(s): Drama, Romance
• Language(s): English
• Director(s): Norman René
• Cast(s): Bruce Davison, Campbell Scott, Patrick Cassidy, Mary-Louise Parker, Stephen Caffrey See all Cast & Crew

• Duration: 1h 36min
• Music: Greg De Belles
• Award(s): Golden Globe 1991 (Won)
  Oscar 1991 (Nominated) Awards List
• Similar To: Song Sung Blue, My Oxford Year
• Story:
  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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