Life Support (2007)
You Can't Live Without It.
ジャンル : ドラマ, テレビ映画
上映時間 : 1時間 30分
演出 : Nelson George
シノプシス
The true-life story of a mother who overcame an addiction to crack and became a positive role model and an AIDS activist in the black community.
When 19-year-old gay-rights activist Tommy and 24-year-old Alan first meet in 1973, they find themselves on the opposite sides of the political coin...
In Los Angeles, Max Carlyle makes a good living directing commercials and has a happy home life with his wife, Mimi, and two children. When Carlyle travels to New York City to visit his friend Charlie, who has been diagnosed with AIDS, he has repeat run-ins with a beautiful woman, Karen, and eventually sleeps with her. Though he goes home the next day and doesn't return until a year later, Carlyle's infidelity still lingers.
Three friends form a bond over the year, Johnathan is gay, Clare is straight and Bobby is neither, instead he loves the people he loves. As their lives go on there is tension and tears which culminate in a strong yet fragile friendship between the three.
Sex Drugs and Aids... This controversial musical follows the lives of recovering addicts and people dying of aids in 80s new York in-between two Christmases after Collins is Involved in a race attack and left on the street to die he is saved by angel a trans woman and drag queen as their relationship builds the scary reality creeps in. In the lot Mark and Roger struggling artists can't afford to make RENT as relentless landlord and former friend Benny makes life hell for them all the while Marks ex girlfriend Maureen is protesting the eviction of the homeless on that same lot and her new girlfriend Joanne handles the law side of things. Finally Mimi is a 19 year old in love with Roger but she is addicted to cocaine and the former heroine addict wants nothing to do with her after his last girlfriend committed suicide.
ジア・マリー・キャランジはペンシルベニア州フィラデルフィアで生まれ育ち、ファッションモデルになるためにニューヨークへと出た。最も有力なモデルエージェント、ウィルヘルミーナ・クーパーにそのワイルドな魅力を見出され、強烈な魅力は瞬く間に彼女をスターに押し上げた。しかし仕事の疲れと日々の寂しさを麻薬コカインで紛らわすようになり、遂にはコカインからヘロインに手を出すようになった。
フィラデルフィアの一流法律会社に務めるアンドリュー・ベケット(トム・ハンクス)は、ある日突然エイズと宣告され、ウィラー社長(ジェイソン・ロバーズ)に解雇される。不当な差別に怒ったベケットは、損害賠償と地位の保全を求めて訴訟を決意。だが、次々と弁護を断わられた彼は、以前敵同士として渡り合ったやり手の弁護士ジョー・ミラー(デンゼル・ワシントン)を訪ねる。ミラーはエイズに対して、抜きがたい恐怖を感じていた。しかし、世間の冷たい視線に対しても毅然と対処し、熱心に資料を漁るべケットの姿に、ミラーの心は動かされる。ミラーは弁護を引き受け、母のサラ(ジョアン・ウッドワード)をはじめ、ベケットの肉親たちは彼に熱い支援を約束する。解雇から7カ月後、〈自由と兄弟愛の街〉フィラデルフィアで注目の裁判が開廷した。ミラーは解雇が明らかな法律違反だと主張したが、対する会社側の主任弁護士ベリンダ(メアリー・スティーンバージェン)は、彼の弁護士としての不適格性を激しく突く。予断を許さぬ裁断の行方と並行して、ベケットの症状は次第に悪化していく。裁判を優先させて本格的治療を先に延ばそうとする彼に、恋人でライフパートナーのミゲール(アントニオ・バンデラス)は苛立つ。ベケットは恋人のため、自分のためにパーティを開く。遂にベケットは裁判中に倒れ、病院に運ばれた。ミラーは原告側の勝訴の報を、ベッドの上のベケットに告げる。数日後、大勢の人々に見守られながらベケットは静かに息を引き取り、ミラーはかけがいのない友の死を実感した。
ミュージシャンとして大成することを夢見ている野心家のロジャーは、恋人の死によって精神的に打ちひしがれていた。そんな中、階下に住んでいるエキゾチックな雰囲気が魅力的なダンサーのミミに心惹かれ始めたロジャーは、彼女との新しい恋に踏み出せずに悩んでいた。
Oskar Roehler's drama Der Alte Affe Angst (Angst) is about the dissolution of a couple. Robert (Andre Hennicke) and Marie (Marie Baumer) have little in common other than their sex life. Since Robert is going through a bout with impotency, they are having a very rocky time. Robert learns that his father, whom he is estranged from, has died. This disturbs Robert so much that he visits a prostitute, and is able to engage in sex with her. Marie discovers the infidelity, and the prostitute has a surprise of her own. Angst was screened at the 2003 Berlin Film Festival.
アイルランドからNYへやってきた4人家族。両親は息子の死に縛られていたが、娘2人の純真な心と、ある芸術家との出会いが一家に思いがけない奇跡をもたらす。『父の祈りを』のジム・シェリダン監督の感動作。
When hordes of gays and lesbians come out "of the closet" in the fictional town of Azalea Springs, Texas, intolerant residents go into a panic about the water supply.
Nick, a gay, HIV-positive architect, begins to display severe symptoms of AIDS and makes preparations to kill himself before he is unable to function normally. He arranges a party to reconnect and say goodbye to his closest friends and his confused parents. But when his ex-partner, Brandon, a television director who left Nick when he was diagnosed with HIV, shows up, what was supposed to be a celebratory event becomes much more difficult for everyone.
Two HIV-positive young men — a semi-employed film critic and a hot hustler — tear off on a cross-country crime spree.
Biographical drama based on the last 20 years of Crisp's life. The literary figure and gay iconoclast emigrated to New York in 1981 and lived there until his death. The film observes Crisp in both his public and private lives, from his seemingly cavalier response to the outbreak of AIDS to his tender relationship with his friend Patrick Angus and his own response to growing old.
When Antonia's husband Massimo is killed in a car accident, she accidentally discovers that he has been having a same-sex affair with a produce wholesaler named Michele.
Mona Bergström is a sweet eurovision-obsessed woman in her 30s. She is married to a lazy husband and has four children, all named after her favorite Swedish Eurovision popstars. Her brother is a crossdressing guy self-titled "Candy Darling". Mona works in a retirement home for disabled people, where she is responsible for taking care of a young man named David who suffers a movement-restricting disease forcing him into a wheelchair. David's parents have abandoned him, as they wanted a normal child. Mona holds a big place in David's heart, and vica versa. David's goal is to get his parents to come and visit him, and he wants to show them that he is a great person, despite his handicap. Therefore he works with music on his computer, and his goal is to create a song, send it to "The Cardigans", a famous Swedish band and have them play the song and credit him, hoping his parents would spot it and want to visit him.
Seven short films - each one focused on the plight of a different child protagonist.
母に虐待され、父には暴力によって妊娠させられた16歳のクレアリース“プレシャス”ジョーンズ。退学処分となった彼女が、学ぶ喜びや愛される喜びを知り、逆境を生き抜くさまを描く。
A woman attracts the attention of a psychotic former Army interrogator and an emotionally fragile young man caring for his ailing mother.
Manu arrives in Paris, in the early days of AIDS, at the beginning of the 1980s. He strikes up a friendship with Adrien, a wealthy doctor in his early fifties, who introduces him to Sarah and Mehdi, a young couple.
Michael and Robert, two gay men living in Brooklyn, spend their last day together before Robert leaves for Africa on work assignment. Michael still has feelings for his friend Nick, who has AIDS.