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Buddies

NR
Movie
1985
1h 21m
English
Drama
David, a naive graduate student, has volunteered to work as a 'buddy' for people dying of AIDS. Assigned to the intensely political Robert, a lifelong activist whose friends and family have abandoned him following his diagnosis, the two men, each with notably different world views, soon discover common bonds, as David's inner activist awakens and Robert's need for emotional release is fulfilled.
Rating
WATCHMODE
7.7
IMDB
Buddies (1985) on IMDb
CRITIC SCORE
95

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Geoff Edholm
Robert Willow
David Schachter
David Bennett
Libby Saines
Mrs. Bennett
Billy Lux
Edward
Susan Schneider
Sylvia Douglas
Damon Hairston
Gym Instructor

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miguelreina says...
4 years ago
The recovery of this film is important because it confronts us with the way AIDS was lived at its worst. There is an obsessive need to explain many things, a discourse of anger and helplessness that does not benefit the film, but that was necessary at that time. Knowing that the director Arthur J. Bressan died in 1987 (44 years old) and the actor Geoff Edholm in 1989 (33 years old), both of complications derived from AIDS, makes its viewing even more emotional.
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Gotham6 says...
2 years ago
This is extremely heartbreaking and is actually the first movie to take on the topic of aids
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