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Common Threads: Stories from the Quilt (1989)

ALL 12/01/1989 (en) History, Documentary 79 Min
  • Release
    12/01/1989
  • Production
    Sandollar Productions, New Yorker Films
  • Rotten tomato
    72%
  • Original title
    Common Threads: Stories from the Quilt
  • Original language
    en
  • Production Cost
  • 0.00
    -

Overview

On the eve of 1987's Second National March on Washington for Lesbian and Gay Rights, surviving families and friends of people who have died of AIDS prepare panels to be added to a large-scale memorial quilt project. Drawing from the sea of names memorialized, director Robert Epstein focuses on the lives of six people. Alongside the intimate profiles offered, through news footage and interviews, Epstein puts the AIDS crisis in the larger context of social and government response to the disease.

  2. Story



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  1. Dustin Hoffman

    Narrator (voice)

  2. Sara Lewinstein

    Storyteller (Story Subject: Dr. Tom Waddell)

  3. David Mandell

    Storyteller (Story Subject: David Mandell Jr.)

  4. Suzi Mandell

    Storyteller (Story Subject: David Mandell Jr.)

  5. Sallie Perryman

    Storyteller (Story Subject: Robert Perryman)

  6. Vito Russo

    Storyteller (Story Subject: Jeffrey Sevcik)

  7. Tracy Torrey

    Storyteller (Story Subject: Self and David C. Campbell)

  8. Gregg Baker

    Self - News Reporter (archive footage)

  9. Gary Bauer

    Self - Policy Advisor to the President (archive footage)

  10. Robert Bazell

    Self - News Reporter (archive footage)

  11. Kevin Boyle

    Self - News Reporter (archive footage)

  12. Edward Brandt

    Self - Assistant Secretary for Health (archive footage)

  13. Tom Brokaw

    Self - News Reporter (archive footage)

  14. Bobbi Campbell

    Self (archive footage)

  15. David C. Campbell

    Self (archive footage)

  16. Marcus A. Conant

    Self (archive footage)

  17. James Curran

    Self - Center for Disease Control (archive footage)

  18. Bolton Eckert

    Self - News Reporter (archive footage)

  19. Jerry Falwell

    Self - Moral Majority Leader (archive footage)

  20. Virginia Fedosky

    Self (archive footage)

  21. Emil Guillermo

    Self - News Reporter (archive footage)

  22. Bryant Gumbel

    Self - News Reporter (archive footage)

  23. Tim Haas

    Self - News Reporter (archive footage)

  24. Robert Hager

    Self - News Reporter (archive footage)

  25. Charles Howard

    Self (archive footage)

  26. Rock Hudson

    Self (archive footage)

  27. Cleve Jones

    Self

  28. C. Everett Koop

    Self - Surgeon General (archive footage)

  29. Larry Kramer

    Self (archive footage)

  30. Roger Gail Lyon

    Self (archive footage)

  31. David Mandell Jr.

    Self (archive footage)

  32. Kevin McCullough

    Self - News Reporter (archive footage)

  33. Andrea Mitchell

    Self - News Reporter (archive footage)

  34. Eddie Murphy

    Self (archive footage)

  35. Mark Ostfield

    Self (archive footage)

  36. Marcia Pally

    Self - News Reporter (archive footage)

  37. John Palmer

    Self - News Reporter (archive footage)

  38. Hampton Pearson

    Self - News Reporter (archive footage)

  39. Robert Perryman

    Self (archive footage)

  40. John Politano

    Self

  41. Josie Politano

    Self

  42. Randy Ray

    Self (archive footage)

  43. Robert Ray

    Self (archive footage)

  44. Ricky Ray

    Self (archive footage)

  45. Ronald Reagan

    Self (archive footage)

  46. Neil Schram

    Self - Los Angeles AIDS Task Force (archive footage)

  47. Heidi Schulman

    Self - News Reporter (archive footage)

  48. Jeffrey Sevcik

    Self (archive footage)

  49. Elizabeth Taylor

    Self - Introduction Speaker

  50. Tom Waddell

    Self (archive footage)

Full Cast & Crew

Casts : 53 , Crews : 16

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Common Threads: Stories from the Quilt (1989) 79 Min

ALL 12/01/1989 (en)
History, Documentary
  • Release 12/01/1989
  • Production
    Sandollar Productions, New Yorker Films
  • Original title Common Threads: Stories from the Quilt
  • en
  • Revenue0.00

Overview

On the eve of 1987's Second National March on Washington for Lesbian and Gay Rights, surviving families and friends of people who have died of AIDS prepare panels to be added to a large-scale memorial quilt project. Drawing from the sea of names memorialized, director Robert Epstein focuses on the lives of six people. Alongside the intimate profiles offered, through news footage and interviews, Epstein puts the AIDS crisis in the larger context of social and government response to the disease.

  1. Rob Epstein, Jeffrey Friedman

    Director

  2. Story

  3. Rob Epstein, Jeffrey Friedman

    Editor

  4. Bill Couturié, Rob Epstein, Jeffrey Friedman

    Producer



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