A musical about AIDS (seriously) and it involves Patient Zero (the man who purportedly bought AIDS to the US) coming back from the dead (sort of) to clear his name.
It took REAL courage to do this back in the early 1990s. AIDS was still a death warrant back then. You got it and you died--that was it. Thankfully things have changed now. This is NOT a good movie. It looks like it was made on no budget, the acting and singing are atrocious, the story goes all over the place and (by the end) I was lost and frustrated. It starts off OK but just quickly falls apart. There's a LOT of preaching about AIDS and how it came about...but none of it is even remotely interesting. The songs are pretty lame. They try to be amusing but fail miserably.
I caught this back in 1995 at a college theatre (the chain theatres wouldn't touch it) and was completely unimpressed. So it gets a 3 for having courage but it really is pretty bad.
It took REAL courage to do this back in the early 1990s. AIDS was still a death warrant back then. You got it and you died--that was it. Thankfully things have changed now. This is NOT a good movie. It looks like it was made on no budget, the acting and singing are atrocious, the story goes all over the place and (by the end) I was lost and frustrated. It starts off OK but just quickly falls apart. There's a LOT of preaching about AIDS and how it came about...but none of it is even remotely interesting. The songs are pretty lame. They try to be amusing but fail miserably.
I caught this back in 1995 at a college theatre (the chain theatres wouldn't touch it) and was completely unimpressed. So it gets a 3 for having courage but it really is pretty bad.