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When AIDS hits home... what does a family do?
Successful lawyer Michael Pierson is gay, but he has always hidden this part of his life from his mother, Katherine, father, Nick, and grandmother Beatrice. But when Michael discovers he has AIDS and is dying of complications from the disease, he must open up to his parents and the rest of his family. Though fearful of their reactions, he introduces them to his longtime lover, Peter, and looks to them for support.Read moreLess
Successful lawyer Michael Pierson is gay, but he has always hidden this part of his life from his mother, Katherine, father, Nick, and grandmother Beatrice. But when Michael discovers he has AIDS and is dying of complications from the disease, he must open up to his parents and the rest of his family. Though fearful of their reactions, he introduces them to his longtime lover, Peter, and looks to them for support.
The story
Successful lawyer Michael Pierson is gay, but he has always hidden this part of his life from his mother, Katherine, father, Nick, and grandmother Beatrice. But when Michael discovers he has AIDS and is dying of complications from the disease, he must open up to his parents and the rest of his family. Though fearful of their reactions, he introduces them to his longtime lover, Peter, and looks to them for support.
Cast & crew
Aidan QuinnMichael Pierson
Gena RowlandsKatherine Pierson
Ben GazzaraNick Pierson
Sylvia SidneyBeatrice McKenna
D.W. MoffettPeter Hilton
John GloverVictor DiMato
Sydney WalshSusan Maracek
Terry O'QuinnDr. Redding
Bill PaxtonBob Maracek
Cheryl AndersonChristine
Christopher BradleyExplore the crew
- Producer
- Perry Lafferty
- Original Music Composer
- John Kander
- Director of Photography
- Woody Omens
- Editor
- Jerrold L. Ludwig
- Director
- John Erman