Love! Valour! Compassion! (1997)

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Eight friends spend three weekends in the country over the course of a summer as they explore their sometimes conflicting attitudes about love, sex, friendship, life, and death in this screen adaptation of Terrence McNally's award-winning play. Gregory Mitchell (Stephen Bogardus) is a successful choreographer whose skills as a dancer have begun to decay as he slips into middle age. He has a handsome summer home in Upstate New York which he shares with his lover Bobby Brahms (Justin Kirk).

R, 1 hr. 50 min.

Drama, Gay & Lesbian, Comedy

Directed By: Joe Mantello

Written By: Terrence McNally

In Theaters: May 16, 1997 Wide

On DVD: May 4, 2004

New Line Home Entertainment

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Cast

Jason Alexander
Buzz Hauser
Randy Becker
FornosRamon
Stephen Bogardus
Gregory Mitchell
John Glover
John And James Jeckyll
John Benjamin Hickey
Arthur Rape
Justin Kirk
Bobby Brahms
Stephen Spinella
Perry Sellars

Critic Reviews for Love! Valour! Compassion!

All Critics (39) | Top Critics (14) | Fresh (14) | Rotten (8) | DVD (5)

Terrence McNally's Tony award-winning play, a perceptive, often hilarious look and love and life in the AIDS era, is so sharply written and bluntly entertaining that it almost overcomes Joe Mantell's static direction, which is too theatrical.

January 24, 2007 Full Review Source: Variety