Directed by Arthur J. Bressan Jr. • 1985 • United States
Starring Geoff Edholm, David Schachter, Billy Lux

The first feature-length drama about AIDS remains an urgent and timeless record of an entire era in gay history. When twenty-five-year-old gay yuppie David (David Schachter) volunteers to be a “buddy” to an AIDS patient, the community center assigns him to Robert (Geoff Edholm), a politically impassioned gay California gardener abandoned by his friends and lovers. As David is changed by knowing Robert, so, too, are we. In the simplicity of the story and the elegance of its unfolding, this groundbreaking independent film by Arthur J. Bressan Jr.—his last before his own death from AIDS—achieves a rare perfection.