An Early Frost (1985)
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69% of users liked it
(617 ratings)
Originally telecast November 11, 1985, An Early Frost was the first TV movie to deal with the subject of AIDS. Aidan Quinn plays a personable young gay lawyer who is stricken with the HIV virus. As his health deteriorates, Quinn finds that his physical agony is secondary to his mental anguish. Ben… More Originally telecast November 11, 1985, An Early Frost was the first TV movie to deal with the subject of AIDS. Aidan Quinn plays a personable young gay lawyer who is stricken with the HIV virus. As his health deteriorates, Quinn finds that his physical agony is secondary to his mental anguish. Ben Gazzara and Gena Rowlands play Quinn's parents, who must not only come to grips with their son's impending death, but with their own long-standing fears and prejudices concerning homosexuality. No easy answers are offered in this realistic drama, which also stars Sylvia Sidney as Quinn's grandmother and John Glover as a fellow AIDS victim. Ron Cowen and Daniel Lipman won Emmys for their pioneering teleplay. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
- Directed By
- John Erman
- Genres
- Drama, Television
Unrated,
- In Theaters
- Nov 11, 1985 Wide
- Studio
- Wolfe Video
Critic Reviews
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Emanuel Levy, EmanuelLevy.Com
The DVD of this historically relevant TV film about AIDS contains commentary from actor Aidan Quinn and writers Ron Cown and Dan Lipman (creators of Queer as Folk) and DiFelicinatonio's 1987 Emmy-winner docu short, Living with AIDS, about Todd Coleman
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Emanuel Levy, EmanuelLevy.Com
Though a capusle of its times, this groundbreaking TV film, the first work about AIDS in film or television (but not theater) holds up well due to high-caliber acting by Aidan Quinn as the son with AIDS and Ben Gazzarra and Gena Rowlands as his parents
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Cast
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Aidan Quinn
as Michael Pierson
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Gena Rowlands
as Katherine Pierson
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Ben Gazzara
as Nick Pierson
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Sylvia Sidney
as Beatrice McKenna
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John Glover
as Victor DiMato
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Cheryl Anderson
as Christine
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D.W. Moffett
as Peter Hilton
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Terry O'Quinn
as Dr. Redding
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Bill Paxton
as Bob Maracek
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Sydney Walsh
as Susan Maracek
