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Plot:
"Life Support" delivers a personal, yet potent, message. It uses its mix of actors and people from the Brooklyn HIV/AIDS community to tell the story of Ana Wallace, who channels her energy and regret ...( read more 
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MCT:April 28, 2008
A touching story. I must admit i prefer Latifah's performance in comedy movies, but peaple do need to be more aware of AIDS conditions, drugs etc, so great job
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MCT:April 7, 2008
It was depicting the life of HIV/AIDS organization, Life Support who herselves HIV positive with a pisitive husband and two daughter that negative. She struggled to live and fixing her relationship with her love ones and they who give support to her that ruined in her junky lifestyle before. It submerged buried love and trust that long lies beneath anger and dissapointment and also fear. Nice Movie
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MCT:March 25, 2008The true-life story of a mother who overcame an addiction to crack and became a positive role model and a AIDS activist in the black community. Based on the true story of a mother who as a rack cocaine addict became infected by her boyfriend's indiscriminate use of a shared needle and with the discovery of her sero-positive status turned her life around to become a powerful positive role model and AIDS activist in the black community. Ana Willis (Queen Latifah in a sterling performance) is married to Slick (Wendell Pierce), both of whom are HIV positive and both work, living with their young daughter Kim (Ravelle Parker) and trying to cope with their estranged daughter Kelly (Rachel Nicks) who elects to live with her grandmother, Ana's beleaguered mother (Anna Deavere Smith). Kelly and Ana are at odds and their strained relationship is one of the evidences of the cruelties of the aftermath of ex-addicts manner of going straight. Kelly's closest friend is Amari (Evan Ross) who is gay and is very ill with AIDS. Kelly asks for Ana's help when Amari disappears and it is through this act that the story plunges forward into the self help groups of AIDS patients Ana chairs, Ana's visit to Amari's boyfriends such as MJ (Darrin Dewitt Henson) who is very much on the down low, and Ana's ultimate finding herself as a mother, a wife, a caregiver and a fine activist in doing her part to prevent the spread of the dread disease form which she suffers.
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MCT:March 18, 2008I cried when Evan Ross' character died, and I cried when I heard that he was playing gay. *tear* But...it was a good movie. Even Ross and all of the charaters did their thing.
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MCT:February 10, 2008Inspired by a true story, LIFE SUPPORT uses a mix of actors and real people from the HIV/AIDS community to tell the story of an HIV-positive Brooklyn woman named Ana (Queen Latifah), who channels her energy and regret over past drug addiction into working for Life Support, an AIDS outreach group. Ana, who contracted the virus by sharing drugs with her husband Slick (Wendell Pierce), displays an admirable though obsessive passion for her job that puts her health at risk, and her stubbornness threatens to drive her already fractured family away. Ana's teenage daughter Kelly (Rachel Nicks) is particularly at odds with Ana; she lives with her grandmother Lucille (Anna Deavere Smith), and isn't interested in moving back in with Ana when Lucille announces she's moving to Virginia. When Kelly's HIV-infected gay friend Amare (Evan Ross) disappears, Ana, looking to connect with her daughter while helping a lost soul, throws herself into searching for him. She embarks on a dangerous but necessary journey, and as she seeks to save one life and heal another, Ana learns a poignant lesson about loving and letting go.
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beautifulangel12posted 320 days ago -
nice movie but worth skipping it... the good part is this movie does make u aware of HIV thats going around... and this movie reminds you to be safe. not a must watch but it does have a strong message.
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