This story spanned the time in the 80's when AIDS showed up and wreaked havoc on the lives of those who were targeted by the disease.
The problem here was that the people chosen to represent the victims weren't all that nice...in fact they were pretty shitty to each other, which made it hard to be fully sympathetic to their plight. One character was a woman writer who disliked her infant and ignored his cries for food by putting in earplugs. Even the gay doctor who was working to deal with the crisis was a jerk. As the two hour mark came up I wondered why I had spent so much time with people I didn't like.
So this gets credit for good intentions but fails in execution.
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