Actors: Matthew
McConaughey, Jennifer Garner, Jared Leto, Denis O'Hare, Steve Zahn
Rating: 7 out of 10, A
movie that grabs you from the outset mainly because McConaughey appears so
absolutely wasted physically by AIDs. He
and Jared Leto went all in on portraying the ravaged characters and it’s almost
mesmerizing. The plot is kind of thin
but doesn’t get into Hollywood preaching mode which was refreshing. A Texas cowboy finds out he is afflicted with
AIDs during the Reagan years and is given thirty days to live. He becomes an illegal purveyor of unapproved
treatment drugs and over the next seven years turns his life around with an
unlikely alliance with a cross dressing Leto.
This film does accurately capture the panic and hopelessness when the
AIDS epidemic first surfaced. You leave
the movie worried about the real world health of the lead actors who went to
award winning lengths to lose weight.
MVP: While Leto’s
Rayon was astounding McConaughey as Ron dominates
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