Longtime Companion
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Longtime Companion poster
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| Directed by | Norman René |
| Produced by |
Stan Wlodkowski Lydia Dean Pilcher (co-producer) |
| Written by | Craig Lucas |
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| Music by | Greg De Belles |
| Cinematography | Tony C. Jannelli |
| Edited by | Katherine Wenning |
| Distributed by | Samuel Goldwyn Company |
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Release date
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October 11, 1989 |
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Running time
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96 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $3 million |
| Box office | $4,609,953 |
Longtime Companion is a 1989 film with Bruce Davison, Campbell Scott, Patrick Cassidy, and Mary-Louise Parker. The first wide-release theatrical film to deal with the subject of AIDS, the film takes its title from the words The New York Times used to describe the surviving same-sex partner of someone who had died of AIDS during the 1980s.
Longtime Companion chronicles the first years of the AIDS epidemic as seen through its impact on several gay men and the straight sister of one of them. The film is split into several sections identified by dates.
Willy (Campbell Scott) a personal trainer, and his friend John (Dermot Mulroney) are spending time with affluent gay couple David (Bruce Davison) and Sean (Mark Lamos) at their beach house on Fire Island for the 4th of July. Sean is a screenwriter for the popular daytime soap opera Other People and David comes from a blue blood background and has a large trust fund. Back in the city, Howard (Patrick Cassidy) is preparing to audition for Sean's soap. His boyfriend is Paul (John Dossett) a business executive and their next-door neighbor is Lisa (Mary-Louise Parker), an antiques dealer, whose brother Fuzzy (Stephen Caffrey) is a lawyer who represents Howard.
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