Details

Subjects:

Shilts, Randy -- Film adaptations.
AIDS (Disease) -- History -- Drama.
AIDS (Disease) -- Political aspects -- Drama.
AIDS (Disease) -- Social aspects -- Drama.

Form/Genre:

Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
Feature films.
Film adaptations.

Language:

In English and Spanish soundtracks with optional subtitles in Spanish and French.
Closed-captioned for the hearing impaired.

System Details:

DVD; Dolby 5.1 surround.

Summary:

Follows the struggle of a handful of strong-willed men and women who took on the fight to save lives in the face of a mysterious illness now called AIDS.

Participant:

Matthew Modine, Alan Alda, Phil Collins, Richard Gere, Anjelica Huston, Steve Martin, Ian McKellan, Lily Tomlin, Glenne Headly, Swoosie Kurtz, Richard Masur, Saul Rubinek, Charles Martin Smith, B.D. Wong.

Credits:

Director of photography, Paul Elliott; edited by Lois Freeman-Fox; music by Carter Burwell.

Notes:

Based on And the band played on / by Randy Shilts.
Videodisc release of the television program produced in 1993.
Special feature: cast and crew biographies.

Contributor:

Modine, Matthew. , Actor
Alda, Alan, 1936- , Actor
Collins, Phil. , Actor
Gere, Richard, 1949- , Actor
Huston, Anjelica. , Actor
Spottiswoode, Roger. , Director
Sanford, Midge. , Producer
Pillsbury, Sarah. , Producer
Schulman, Arnold. , Screenwriter
Burwell, Carter. , Composer
Shilts, Randy. , Author
HBO Pictures. , Producer
HBO Video (Firm) , Distributor

Related Work:

Shilts, Randy., Author And the band played on.

ISBN:

0783118538

OCLC:

50554054

Publisher Number:

026359096228
90962 HBO Home Video