How to Survive a Plague
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DVD Details
- Rated: Not Rated
- Run Time: 1 hours, 49 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: February 26, 2013
- Originally Released: 2012
- Label: IFC Independent Film
Performers, Cast and Crew:
| Directed by | David France | |
| Screenwriting by | T. Woody Richman, Tyler Walk & David France | |
| Composition by | Arthur Russell, Stuart Bogie & Luke J. O'Malley | |
| Director of Photography: | Derek Wiesehahn | |
| Hosted by | Derek Link, Bill Bahlman, Gregg Bordowitz, Mark Harrington, Larry Kramer, Iris Long, Gregg Gonsalves, Peter Staley, Spencer Cox, David Barr & Garance Franke-Riuta |
Entertainment Reviews:
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Like the very best documentaries about political movements, How to Survive a Plague makes you feel humble and, at the same time, extraordinarily proud.
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The Nation
4 stars out of 5 -- A moving treatment of a deeply personal subject, and an enthrallig depiction of a seriously fired up popular movement.
Empire
Rating: 4/5 --
David France's documentary about the 1980s/90s American gay community and its leading role in discovering "combination therapy" - the anti-HIV magic bullet - will be inspiring among audiences from the G20.
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Financial Times
[A] stirring, scrupulous doc... -- Grade: A-
Entertainment Weekly
An excellent film for both those unfamiliar and gay youth uninitiated with the dark days of the AIDS crisis, and the deadly struggle to speak up or die quietly.
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IONCINEMA.com
Rating: 3/5 --
How to Survive a Plague supplies plenty of moments that are electrifying, inspiring and often both, courtesy of such luminary leaders as Peter Staley and Larry Kramer
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CineVue
Rating: 4/5 --
This documentary by David France persuasively argues that one of the greatest grassroots activist campaigns of modern times was the Act Up movement ...
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Guardian
Product Description:
Filmmaker David France tracks the efforts made by activist groups ACT UP and TAG (Treatment Action Group) to convince the government and the pharmaceutical industry to speed up human trials of experimental drugs that ease the suffering of HIV/AIDS patients. Thanks to their tireless efforts, HIV/AIDS would eventually become a manageable condition, rather than a death sentence.
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- UPC: 030306983493
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