Movie Reviews for And the Band Played On

And the Band Played On

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Movie Review: COMPLETELY MIND BLOWING!
Summary: 5 Stars

I am currently a medical student, hoping to have a future career working specifically with HIV/AIDS patients. When I ordered this movie, I was expecting any typical drama movie that is not well dramatized.

When I received the movie, I watched it before taking it to class the next day and I was just shocked at how informed I was of the disease. It is so INCREDIBLE! I took the movie to school the next day and everyone that has NOT seen the movie had the same reaction that I had. Even the teacher had watched it before and was still moved by it.

If you are unsure of buying it, I can tell you that it is a movie to own if you are into true life dramas. Everytime that I watch it, I am still floored by how our world had changed by this epidemic!

Movie Review: Very informative
Summary: 4 Stars

I never really knew of Matthew Modine until I saw this movie. He was very good in the part and I have watched the movie several times. I also purchased the book as well.

Movie Review: On research, life, science and scientists...
Summary: 4 Stars

If you are not familiar with research, this nice approach to a scientist's work will open your mind to a new world on which ordinary people have many fantasies. Besides, this very interesting and moving film, with high level and homogeneous performances, will show, the closest it can, the early facts about such a terrible disease. I strongly recommend it. I have seen it with my 16 year old son, but maybe it is not suitable for kids under this age. A bit too long lasting and complex for younger audience.

Movie Review: Medical mystery and misery tour at the start of AIDS...
Summary: 5 Stars

The film is well-done in all aspects, definitely worth seeing if you have any interest in the way the world began to track the AIDS epidemic back around 1980. I was a newspaper editor in Oklahoma at the time, and I remember the early news stories which first hinted that something big and bad was brewing in the gay community. Although I am straight, I have friends of that sexual preference, and in fact, one of my sister's oldest and dearest friends was an early casualty of this killer disease. Even better than this movie, however, is the source book by the late Randy Shilts, who was a journalist in San Francisco (who happened to be gay, and who happened to contract and die of AIDS eventually.) The non-fiction book is huge, but it is gripping. AIDS is still with us, and is a heterosexual scourge in Africa, so this story is not as dated as one might think.