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Directors: Arthur J. Bressan, Jr. Actors:
Geoff Edholm David Schachter Libby Saines David Rose Billy Lux Joyce Korn Susan Schneider

Buddies 1985

81 minutes

'...the first dramatic movie about AIDS.'

When 25 year-old gay yuppie David volunteers to be a "buddy" to an AIDS patient, the gay community center assigns him to Robert, a 32 year-old politically impassioned gay gardener abandoned by his friends and lovers. Throughout his visits to Robert's hospital room, the two men become friends.

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