Love! Valour! Compassion!

Love! Valour! Compassion! (1997)

  • 67% of critics liked it
    (21 reviews)

  • 69% of users liked it
    (3,254 ratings)

Eight friends spend three weekends in the country over the course of a summer as they explore their sometimes conflicting attitudes about love, sex, friendship, life, and death in this screen adaptation of Terrence McNally's award-winning play. Gregory Mitchell (Stephen Bogardus) is a successful… More

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R, 1 hr. 50 min.
Directed By
Joe Mantello
Written By
Terrence McNally
Genres
Drama, Gay & Lesbian, Comedy
In Theaters
May 16, 1997 Wide
On DVD
May 4, 2004
New Line Home Entertainment

Critic Reviews

  • Emanuel Levy, Variety

    Terrence McNally's Tony award-winning play, a perceptive, often hilarious look and love and life in the AIDS era, is so sharply written and bluntly entertaining that it almost overcomes Joe Mantell's static direction, which is too theatrical.

  • Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat, Spirituality and Practice

    Funny and touching drama about a group of white upper-middle-class gay men.

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  • jay n


    Angsty, maudlin drama based on a much better play. The actors are capable but something is lost in the translation from stage to screen.

  • Leigh R


    Slow and boring at times with plenty of nudity, some not needed to ever be seen, but had a great message to it.

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