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11 January 1996 |
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MGM Distribution Company |
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1 hr. 49 min. |
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Overwiew :Nick Stark is a Los Angeles architect graced with vitality, good looks, loyal friends, a thriving career, a down-to-earth attitude, and an irreverent sense of humor. Lately, however, Nick's vision and memory have been short-circuiting, and his headaches won't go away. Although he looks healthy, he has been fending off AIDS-related illnesses for years. And now, just before Christmas, his doctor tells him that untreatable lesions (progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy) will decimate all his faculties within days. He might die quickly, or linger in a vegetative coma, never to recover. Nick decided long ago that he would never linger; his friend Tony, a former health professional, will help him die with dignity. But Nick, who has always known how to live, intends to savor his remaining time by gathering everyone he loves for a two-day farewell party. |
Starring :
Margaret Cho, Bruce Davison, Lee Grant, Devon Gummersall, Gregory Harrison
Directors :
Randal Kleiser
Producers :
Gregory Hinton, Robert Fitzpatrick, Joel Thurm
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www.boxoffice.com - : One of the few studio releases that screened at this year's Sundance, this dying-of-AIDS film by the close of its opening credits has portrayed the happy days from a romantic relationship between two men, Nick (Eric Roberts) and Brandon (Gregory Harrison), the discovery that one is infected with HIV, subsequent changes in emotions and behavior for each lover, and the move toward breakup. Other than a ''whew'' response, the audience is left with little, and certainly not enough information about who these two men are and why we should care about them. In a century-closing decade crammed with real-life tragedy, writer/director Randal Kleiser makes the mistake of thinking that a fictional character who's dying will automatically elicit viewer sympathy. It's an error that a far less experienced filmmaker, the late Cyril Collard, did not make in the similarly themed yet far more devastating 1992 film ''Savage Nights.'' But Kleiser, with almost a dozen films on his resume, has plenty of time left to recover. more...
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rogerebert.suntimes.com - : ``It's My Party'' is gentle, and very sad, the story of a man whodiscovers that he has a short time to live, and throws a party for family andfriends, so that he can say goodbye before committing suicide. The story is notso concerned with his disease or his decision as with recording the emotionaltones that surround it, and watching the film is uncannily like going throughthe illness, death and memorial service of a loved one. more...
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movie-reviews.colossus.net - : Despite the success of Jonathan Demme's Philadelphia, the marketplace has not been flooded by copycat endeavors. Indeed, two years after Tom Hanks won his first Oscar for playing a dying lawyer, the mainstream motion picture industry has remained largely silent on the issue of AIDS. It's My Party represents the first Hollywood-backed effort since Philadelphia to deal in a straightforward manner with those who are given a death sentence by the HIV virus. And, while Randal Kleiser's film has its share of flaws, It's My Party turns out to be effective, and affecting, melodrama. more...
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