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I decided to brave those themes despite my female tear ducts this evening, and I was glad I did.
This film was silly. If only they had a better leading man and a better director it might have worked.
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"Jeffrey" not just for gay people-it's a story of awakenings
I watched "Jeffrey" with my Husband earlier tonight.
Can Jeffrey fight his fear?
First off, the play was better. First mounted at the now-defunct WPA Theater in 1993, Jeffrey almost didn’t make it to the stage despite its author’s previous success with 1991’s I Hate Hamlet, which received an acclaimed Broadway run. His direction really destroyed some of the jokes.
While there is a character who dies of AIDS (Darius), the overall tone of the film is more upbeat than not, and ends on a positive note.
A poignant romantic comedy about the quest for love and intimacy in the age of AIDS.
Does it provide an accurate cross-section of the diverse LGBT community? And it’s in that scene that Jeffrey pulls from behind him a red balloon and lightly taps it, letting it float over to Steve, who returns it to Jeffrey. In Jeffrey’s world, AIDS was not a death sentence — much as an HIV-positive status became after medical research determined a cocktail of drug therapy that reduced the chances of the virus evolving into the terminal disease.
In August 1995, a film version, helmed by the play’s director Christopher Ashley and written by Rudnick, opened in theaters.
The film follows the titular Jeffrey (played by Wings star Steven Weber), who is put off by the notion of finding an acceptable mate in New York City in the early ‘90s — still the gay mecca it was in previous decades but savagely wounded by the HIV/AIDS epidemic of the previous ten years.
Who knew a life-affirming comedy about death would be the best way to go about that?
Jeffrey is currently available to stream via Amazon Prime Video, Fandor, Hoopla, Kanopy, Pluto TV, The Roku Channel, and SHOUT! He actually encourages Jeffrey to have sex in spite of his situation.
Others are in the HIV+ status and have never developed the disease. Patrick Stewart also stars as Jeffrey's mentor Sterling.
As one of the very few gay-themed films of its era, and one of the fewer to positively portray a gay lifestyle, Jeffrey became a cult hit with LGBTQ audiences. The reason for Jeffrey’s slow march to the stage was simple: it is a comedy about AIDS.
Jeffrey refuses the responsibility of love — mourning its potential, even inevitable, loss.
Although the film does end on a happy note, with Jeffrey learning from a randy Catholic priest (played with perfection by a hilarious Nathan Lane) that one must accept the bad with the good. Then Stewart gets deadly serious as he faces burying his young partner Bryan Batt.
Are there flaws in the movie. He has a great part as a not so celibate priest. They're all part of fabric of our lives, there stories should be remembered and told.
Jeffrey is a mostly comic film that turns serious in the last 20 minutes or so. Some of the humor that worked so well on stage fell flat on a movie screen. Other than that, this is an OK movie.
It’s an amusing take on genuine concerns that highlight just how extreme the fears surrounding sex had become.
These fears soon convince Jeffrey to swear off men and go celibate, although that’s easier said than done when someone as hot as Michael T. Weiss arrives at the gym in a vest and bulge-y short shorts.
Rudnick’s original play, which the film is based on, was originally going to be called “Keep It In Your Pants,” and that’s exactly what Jeffrey tries to do in the 90 minutes that ensue.
Darius dies of AIDS, but Steve doesn't.