Wow! Such a good movie.

Very disappointing...

Good movie but grossly overrated

All of these films share one commonality, that being a kind of emotional center that humanizes a cast of monsters.

It really is a tearjerker when most of the men died from aids. This movie really does remind you of the great pretender Freddie Mercary who died from the disease. All of the guy actors were great including Mary-Louise Parker who was the only actress in this film to be hanging out with the lads. Man, when each men were dying especially the Sean character, it broke my heart that they were having dementia, becoming weak and never waking up. I never experienced someone who died of Aids in my life but seeing how Aids effects people, it just is so so sad and you feel really hopeless for not helping that person. Even typing this review my eyes are starting to water again.Brilliant movie, it is very sad but it shouldn't be unmissable, it is just blooming well done folks, 8/10!

The emergence and devastation of the AIDS epidemic is chronicled in the lives of several gay men living during the 1980s.I was not particularly aware of cinema in the 1980s, but my sense today (2017) is that this is an awfully important film. HIV and AIDS did not really become something mainstream films tackled until "Philadelphia", but this film was ahead of that curve being quite open and honest.It also deserves praise, not just for exploring the issue of HIV, but for presenting gay men without reducing them to some kind of stereotype. All too often it seems "gay movies" play up the camp factor. This is fine, of course, but tends to further the idea that the gay community and society as a whole are mutually exclusive, which is anything but the truth.

I have heard about this movie, and i really wanted to see it. Today, i found it without any advice. And i watched. "Longtime Companion" is just amazing. Is beautiful strong enough drama. Real and well done."Longtime Companion" was one, for not called it the first, film that talk about AIDS and its terrible social impact. We have seen now works like "Philadelphia" and incredible "Angels in America", but what "Longtime Companion" do is totally different... and amazing. "Longtime Companion" is a drama that have you to see to believe it. Is seems that is totally calm, at first sight you think that. Then you feel a kind of pressure. And then you understand how hard is this topic."Longtime Companion" is about how big was the AIDS impact, and how terrible was the situation then. The movie introduce to us each character. Character which at first sight, you think that don't have any to each other... but you release minute by minute how important are each to other. Much gay films treat the AIDS as a central topic, but not much do it with certain real sense. "Longtime Companion" treat the AIDS topic for portrait a kind of new war, that we see that is not finished yet. But, its not only about that. The film talk about how important is the people that you love and loves you too. How difficult is support a kind of impact. Is a story about acceptation and friendship.The performances are incredible (Specially of Mary-Louise Parker... God, i love that women! ) and the direction is totally great. "Longtime Companion" is spectacular, because, after a definitely a sad story.... it gives a bitter hope. They said: "Is like the ending of the war" ... then imagine if nothing have happen, all the victims are fine... they release then that is happen... then one of them said: "I hope be there" . And that is the feeling. All want to be in the end of that damn war.*Sorry for the mistakes...well, if there any.

Craig Lucas adapted his own play about the confusion and panic over the on-set of the AIDS disease in the early 1980s, as seen through the lives of a circle of gay men in New York. Lucas dives headfirst into the story with minimal introductions, pinpointing the initial awareness of AIDS and the different reactions to personal crises; he doesn't get into the anger--the rage--of the illness, but instead focuses on the quiet sorrow, giving the film a somewhat soft, blurry edge (it isn't a preachy film, which is good, but neither it is gripping). The wonderful cast of actors (with kudos to Mary-Louise Parker as the proverbial indefatigable gal-pal) provides warmth and emotion even as Lucas' screenplay takes curious short-cuts. The early scenes aren't shaped, and much of the handling seems static. However, as we come to know these men, the picture's obvious good intentions give way to moving human drama, leading to a conclusion which transcends sentiment. It's a sure-footed sequence, exceptionally well done. **1/2 from ****