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Documentary, History - 2012
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A story of two coalitions – ACT UP and TAG (Treatment Action Group) – whose activism and innovation turned AIDS from a death sentence into a manageable condition. Despite having no scientific training, these self-made activists infiltrated the pharmaceutical industry and helped identify promising new drugs, moving them from experimental trials to patients in record time.
Director:
,
David France
Cast:
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Anthony Fauci
,
Larry Kramer
,
Peter Staley
,
Iris Long
,
Bob Rafsky
,
Mark Harrington
,
David Barr
,
Jim Eigo
,
Ann Northrop

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Runtime:
109 min
Release date:
21 Sep 2012
Country:
US
Languages:
English
Budget:
$0
Revenue:
$122,665
Awards:
Nominated for 1 Oscar. 13 wins & 21 nominations total

Top Critics Reviews

fresh:
It can't be long before we see the Hollywood version.
– Cath Clarke,
Time Out,
5 Nov 2013
fresh:
David France has made an absorbing film to document that moment of immense implosion, called How to Survive a Plague.
– Stanley Kauffmann,
The New Republic,
17 Jun 2013
fresh:
As this stirring, scrupulous doc reveals, the members of ACT UP fused the fervor of revolutionaries, the tenacity of trial lawyers, and the rage of the dispossessed to change the very shape of the epidemic.
– Owen Gleiberman,
Entertainment Weekly,
7 Jan 2013
fresh:
From a terrible epidemic comes a beautiful documentary.
– Michael Phillips,
Chicago Tribune,
7 Jan 2013
fresh:
A raw history, often cluttered and sometimes repetitive but, when strategies fail along with immune systems, deeply affecting.
– Rick Groen,
Globe and Mail,
2 Nov 2012
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