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Love! Valour! Compassion! (1997)

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Reviews Counted:19

Fresh:12

Rotten:7

Average Rating:6.1/10

Runtime: 1 hr 55 mins

Genre: Comedies

Synopsis: The big screen adaptation of Terrence McNally's tenderhearted, bittersweet Broadway smash about the bucolic bonding adventures of eight gay New York City dwellers. The boys meet thrice at a... The big screen adaptation of Terrence McNally's tenderhearted, bittersweet Broadway smash about the bucolic bonding adventures of eight gay New York City dwellers. The boys meet thrice at a picturesque lakeside country getaway to share stories, reminiscences, and their fears--about commitment, the specter of AIDS, and life in general. [More]

Starring: Jason Alexander, Randy Becker, Stephen Bogardus, John Glover

Starring: Jason Alexander, Randy Becker, Stephen Bogardus, John Glover, John Benjamin Hickey, Justin Kirk, Stephen Spinella

Director: Joe Mantello

Director: Joe Mantello
Screenwriter: Terrence McNally
Story: Terrence McNally
Composer: Harold Wheeler
Producer: Doug Chapin, Barry Krost, Amy Labowitz, Ruth Vitale, Jonathan Weisgal

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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.

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10/15/02
Margaret A. McGurk
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Cincinnati Enquirer

Funny and touching drama about a group of white upper-middle-class gay men.

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