The Indie Movies That Dealt With The AIDS Crisis Back Before Tom Hanks Won That Oscar
(ArtsJournal)

Benjamin Lee looks at the making of the mid-1980s titles Buddies (shot in nine days in 1985), the TV movie An Early Frost (on which NBC lost $500,000 after advertisers fled; it went on to win four Emmys), Parting Glances, and Longtime Companion.