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Love! Valour! Compassion! is a american film of genre Drama directed by Joe Mantello released in USA on 16 may 1997 with Jason Alexander

Love! Valour! Compassion! (1997)

Love! Valour! Compassion!
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Released in USA 16 may 1997
Length 1h48
Directed by
OriginUSA
Genres Drama
Rating69% 3.495133.495133.495133.495133.49513

Love! Valour! Compassion! is a 1997 film adaptation by Terrence McNally of his play of the same name, revolving around eight gay men who gather for three summer weekends. The setting is at a lakeside house in Dutchess County, two hours north of New York City, where they relax, reflect, and plan for survival in an era plagued by AIDS.

As with many screen adaptations of stage plays, the script underwent numerous changes, eliminating almost all direct addresses to the audience and the conclusion of one of the subplots. This remains the only theatrical film directed by Joe Mantello, who was nominated for the Grand Special Prize at the Deauville Film Festival.

Synopsis

The story of eight male friends who spend the three major holiday weekends of one summer - Memorial Day, the Fourth of July, and Labor Day - together at a house in upstate New York. The house belongs to Gregory, a successful Broadway choreographer now approaching middle age, who fears he is losing his creativity; and his twenty-something lover Bobby, a legal assistant who is blind. Each of the guests at their house is connected to Gregory’s work in one way or another - Arthur and longtime partner Perry are business consultants; John Jeckyll, a sour and promiscuous Englishman, is a dance accompanist; die-hard musical theater fanatic Buzz Hauser is a costume designer and the most stereotypically gay man in the group. Only John's summer lover Ramon and John's twin brother James are outside the circle of friends. But Ramon is outgoing and eventually makes a place for himself in the group, and James is such a gentle soul that he is quickly welcomed. Infidelity, flirtations, soul-searching, AIDS, truth-telling, and skinny-dipping mix monumental questions about life and death with a wacky dress rehearsal for Swan Lake performed in drag.

Actors

Jason Alexander

(Buzz Hauser)
Stephen Pinella

(Perry Sellars)
Stephen Bogardus
John Benjamin Hickey

(Arthur Page)
Justin Kirk

(Bobby Brahms)
John Glover

(John & James Jeckyll)
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