As Is

Adapted from William M Hoffman's classy Broadway play, this Aids drama has the power to move without employing the usual bag of tricks. The main characters - a homosexual who contracts the virus and the ex-lover who looks after him - are allowed to breathe, so that ideas spread gradually across the screen in a very real way. Robert Carradine, generally the most overlooked member of the Carradine acting clan, gives a harrowingly detailed performance as the dying man, while, in his film debut, Jonathan Hadary looks as if he belongs on the screen. Director Michael Lindsay-Hogg made the Beatles documentary, Let It Be.