1985
In another time, at another place…
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DVD Details
- Rated: Not Rated
- Run Time: 1 hours, 25 minutes
- Video: Black & White
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: December 18, 2018
- Originally Released: 2018
- Label: Wolfe Video
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Cory Michael Smith, Virginia Madsen, Michael Chiklis & Jamie Chung | |
Performer: | Ryan Piers Williams | |
Directed by | Yen Tan | |
Screenplay by | Yen Tan |
Entertainment Reviews:
Rating: 4/5 --
What really distinguishes the film is that it gets deep inside this broken family without becoming histrionic or accusatory. Tan avoids any hint of sentimentality, concentrating on the pain instead.
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Sydney Morning Herald
3.5 stars out of 4 -- A sensitive drama that slowly builds in power, 1985 feels like a missing minor classic from the decade that preceded the rise of the so-called New Queer Cinema...
RogerEbert.com
[T]his sensitively observed period piece evokes the aching difficulty of coming out in a recent past distanced by three intervening decades of progress in gay rights and cultural visibility. Anchored by a deeply felt central performance from Cory Michael Smith...
Hollywood Reporter
Rating: 3.5/4 --
1985 feels like a missing minor classic from the decade that preceded the rise of the so-called New Queer Cinema.
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RogerEbert.com
Rating: 4/5 --
The dark inky frames are full of shadows and dread. Yet the narrative, and Adrian's journey, is always leavened with quiet compassion.
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Times (UK)
Rating: 3/5 --
A poignant footnote to a monumental crisis.
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Little White Lies
Rating: 4/5 --
Assuming you can go home again, the visit might not be the smoothest ride of your life. That sad concept resonates through Yen Tan's drama, set in the nightmare onset of AIDS.
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Nobody's Reading This But Me
Product Description:
Director/co-writer Yen Tan's domestic drama revolves around Adrian (Cory Michael Smith) - a HIV+ closeted gay man - and his struggle to come out to his Bible belt family during the AIDS crisis. After spending three years in New York, he returns to Fort Worth, Texas, over Christmas to come clean to his religious parents, his younger brother, and his ex-girlfriend (Jamie Chung).
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