Parting Glances

Parting Glances is an American film shot in 1984 and released in 1986. With its realistic look at urban gay life in the Ronald Reagan era and at the height of the AIDS crisis, many film critics consider it an important movie in the history of gay cinema. It was also one of the first American films to address the AIDSHIV pandemic. Firsttime director Bill Sherwood died of complications due to AIDS in 1990 without ever completing another film.

Parting Glances plays out over a 24hour period with scenes taking place at a farewell party for Robert hosted by the couples friend, Joan Kathy Kinney, and at a dinner party hosted by Roberts employer, Cecil Patrick Tull, and his wife, Betty Yolande Bavan, who have an unconventional marriage.While classified as a drama, the film also contains many comedic moments. Critics praised the movies witty, realistic dialogue and detailed evocation of gay and gayfriendly urbanites in 1980s Manhattan. Parting Glances was also one of the first motion pictures to deal frankly and realistically with the subject of AIDS, and the impact of the then relatively new disease on the gay community. In one scene, Nick talks fondly of the 1970s and early 1980s era of decadence to a younger, collegeaged gay man. ........

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