Longtime Companion

Longtime Companion is a 1989 film with Bruce Davison, Campbell Scott, Patrick Cassidy, and MaryLouise Parker. The first widerelease 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 samesex partner of someone who had died of AIDS during the 1980s.

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 Seans soap. His boyfriend is Paul John Dossett a business executive and their nextdoor neighbor is Lisa MaryLouise Parker, an antiques dealer, whose childhood friend Fuzzy Stephen Caffrey, is a lawyer who represents Howard.That morning, The New York Times publishes its first article about the rise of a new gay cancer. The news spreads as friends call each other. Some are immediately concerned, others dismissive. Willy meets Fuzzy at a tea dance later in the afternoon and they begin a relationship. Howard lands the role. ........

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