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 enlarge | Director: John Greyson
Actors: Bernard Behrens, Dianne Heatherington, Brenda Kamino, Duncan Mcintosh, Von Flores
Studio: Strand Releasing
Category: DVD
List Price: $24.99
Buy New: $10.80
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Rating:  7 reviews
Sales Rank: 63905
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dvd-video, Ntsc
Language: English (Original Language)
Rating: Unrated
Region: 1
Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Number Of Discs: 1
Running Time: 100 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 5.4 x 0.6
UPC: 712267250820
EAN: 0712267250820
ASIN: B00080ETZE
Theatrical Release Date: 1993
Release Date: May 17, 2005
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Condition: BRAND NEW AND FACTORY SEALED
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 Radical and Entertaining September 6, 2005
RickC
5 out of 7 found this review helpful
When I saw that the only reviewer of this fine film had given it one star and raked it over the coals, I felt compelled to write a review that gave a fair critique of the film.
The film is amazing on many levels. As a musical, it works. If not for the subject matter, I bet Broadway would have scooped it up. The song "Six of Seven Things" is beautiful as are "Just Like Scherazade" and "Zero Patience." More importantly, the politics of the piece are important. While we no longer point fingers as one individual "Patient Zero" of AIDS, our culture still engaged in the rhetoric of blame when it comes to the disease in our demarcation of the "innocents" infected via blood transfusion and those who practice unsafe sex or engage in drug use. Zero's proclamation, "Tell the story, clear my name. We don't need someone to blame" echoes today in a culture that indicts those that engage in high risk activities as somehow deserving of the virus.
The film's creative vision is ingenious. The incorporation of the Victorian sexologist Sir Richard Burton as Zero's lover is brilliant! The theme of detecting the truth about the disease shows that things have not changed all that much in a hundred years. The motif of Burton's "A Thousand Nights and One Night" into Zero telling his own story in his own words is indicative of the powerful meshing of creative genius with radical polemic.
The film was one of the first to really give an honest voice to a gay man with AIDS. I defy anyone to say that films like "An Early Frost" or "Grief" or "Parting Glances" or "Longtime Companion" are as powerful and important as this one. AIDS does not serve as watered down melodrama here. It is the vehicle to indict a diseased society for its intolerance. This is one of the most underrated films of all time. Sure, it has singing anuses, but the ruse is used to question a cultural obsession with embracing Freud's death drive. You're not going to see that kind of intelligent engagement in the myriad other films about AIDS that use it invoke pathos, not profundity.
Buy this film. It is a truly beautiful piece of art!
 A Waste of film and time August 22, 2005
Robert L. Molfese (San Antonio)
2 out of 16 found this review helpful
From beginning to end. . . . . boring! From beginning to end....a waste of time. From beginning to end....absolute and utterly valueless!!!!!! Acting ability - zero! Story line - zero & zero. Thought provoking>>>>zero zero zero. Entertaining - forget it! Don't waste you time and your money.
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