Stephen Frears was originally approached to direct.
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Matthew Modine and Donal Logue worked on projects based on DC Comics Batman; Modine in The Dark Knight Rises (2012), and Logue on Gotham (2014).
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Richard Masur and David Clennon appeared in The Thing (1982), which, to some movie buffs and experts, seems to be an allegory about the HIV/AIDS epidemic.
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Alan Alda starred as Captain Benjamin Franklin "Hawkeye" Pierce on the television series MAS*H (1972). Richard Masur guest starred in "The Late Captain Pierce". Whereas their characters interacted with each other there, they share no screentime here, save for the time Mauser claps for Dr. Gallo's introduction on the televised news conference.
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Charles Martin Smith and Laura Innes appeared in Deep Impact (1998).
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Lily Tomlin and Matthew Modine appeared in Short Cuts (1993).
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Dakin Matthews, Alan Alda, and Peter McRobbie appeared in Bridge of Spies (2015).
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BD Wong and Stephen Spinella appeared in The Normal Heart (2014), another HBO movie on the AIDS epidemic in the early 1980s.
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NBC spent two years adapting the book for television, but ultimately withdrew from the project in 1989, allowing HBO to pick up the rights. Contrary to popular belief, NBC dropped the project, not because of its controversial subject matter, but because the book's structure didn't work as a four-hour, two-night mini-series. In March 1994, six months after its debut on HBO, NBC re-ran it, edited to fit a two-hour time slot.
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The obituary of the unnamed choreographer played by Richard Gere is actually Michael Bennett's real-life obit, citing two Bennett shows ("A Joyful Noise" and "Ballroom") by name as well as the plot and characters of "A Chorus Line."
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Although the name of Richard Gere's character is never revealed throughout the movie, he is Michael Bennett, the famous choreographer and creator of A Chorus Line and Dreamgirls (among others musicals), who died of AIDS in 1987.
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This movie, like the Randy Shilts book on which it was based, presents as fact the idea that a single man (the French-Canadian airline steward Gaetan Dugas) was heavily or solely responsible for the introduction of HIV into the United States as well as the speed of its subsequent spread. Shilts was largely responsible for promulgating this idea, and he was the first author to supply Dugas's name to the general public (before Shilts's writings, Dugas was known only as "Patient Zero"). However, a 2016 paper published in Nature: The International Journal of Science "recovered the HIV-1 genome from the individual known as 'Patient 0' [Dugas] and found neither biological nor historical evidence that he was the primary case in the US...." Furthermore, that paper and other publications in the years since Shilts's book have also debunked the title of "Patient Zero," another source of the notion that Dugas was the disease's origin point and/or primary vector; Erin Blakemore's October 2016 Smithsonian Magazine article explains, "It turns out that a tragic misreading fueled Dugas's reputation as 'Patient Zero.' Despite being initially identified as the CDC's 57th case of the then-mysterious disease, writes [the Los Angeles Times' Deborah] Netburn, at some point he was tagged with the letter 'O' in a CDC AIDS study that identified him as a patient 'outside of California.' That O was read as a number at some point, and Shilts, feeling the idea of a patient zero was 'catchy,' identified Dugas in his book."
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In one scene, Don Francis (Matthew Modine) mentions that Dr. Robert Gallo would win a Nobel Prize, if his retrovirus research turned out to be successful in finding what causes AIDS. That statement almost happened in reality, but in 2008, Gallo was excluded among the winners for such work, and the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine was given to Luc Montagnier and Françoise Barré-Sinoussi (played by Patrick Bauchau and Nathalie Baye, respectively) for their work on the discovery of HIV.
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The cast includes two Oscar winners: Phil Collins and Anjelica Huston; and four Oscar nominees: Alan Alda, Sir Ian McKellen, Richard Jenkins, and Lily Tomlin.
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Mary Guinan was Nevada's State Health Officer in the early 2000s. She has since retired.
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Steve Martin and Lily Tomlin appeared in All of Me (1984).
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Steve Martin and Glenne Headly appeared in Dirty Rotten Scoundrels (1988) and Sgt. Bilko (1996).
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Sir Ian McKellen and David Dukes appeared in Gods and Monsters (1998).
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When Richard Gere accepted a small role, he broke taboos about the subject, and major movie stars taking small parts in television productions. Subsequently, Steve Martin, Alan Alda, Phil Collins, and Anjelica Huston were willing to appear.
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Sir Ian McKellen and Richard Masur appeared in Six Degrees of Separation (1993), which had a subplot involving AIDS.
And the Band Played On - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
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