Love! Valour! Compassion!

Director: Joe Mantello

Overview

This very human comedy is set in Duchess County, New York where over the course of three weekends, eight gay men gather to find refuge from their mundane lives. Despite their merrymaking, their holidays are shadowed by the ever-present specter of AIDS, the forbidden topic.

Product Details

Release Date:	11/07/2017
UPC:	0888574564803
Original Release:	0000
Language:	English
Sales rank:	35,924

Cast & Crew

Performance Credits

Jason Alexander	Buzz Hauser
Randy Becker	Ramon Fornos
Stephen Bogardus	Gregory Mitchell
John Glover	John and James Jeckyll
John Benjamin Hickey	Arthur Pape
Justin Kirk	Bobby Brahms
Stephen Spinella	Perry Sellars
Harold Wheeler	Composer

Technical Credits

Terrence McNally

Doug Chapin	Producer
Barry Krost	Producer
Amy Labowitz	Executive Producer
Ruth Vitale	Executive Producer
Jonathan Weisgal	Executive Producer
Terrence McNally	Screenwriter
Jonathan Veisgal	Executive Producer

Scene Index

In Memoriam: William Sterling Bell 1. David Mendell The Southwestern Regional – A Community of Therapists 2. John Gladfelter The Liabilities of Individual Psychotherapy 3. Myron F. Weiner, Barry Rosson and V. Frank Cody Studies of Patient Affective Self-disclosure 4. Charles W. Archibald, Jr. Group Psychotherapy with American Indians 5. Albert E. Riester and Dinah Lee Tanner The Leadership Laboratory – A Group Counseling Intervention Model for Schools 6. Lewis H. Richmond Observations on Private Practice and Community Clinic Adolescent Psychotherapy Groups 7. Robert L. Beck, Pat Wiggins and Irvin A. Kraft What’s in a Name? Name Assignment as a Pathological Function of Role Confusion in a Family 8. Sidney J. Fields Homosexuality: A Confused Trinity 9. Morton Kissen The Concept of Identification: An Evaluation of its Current Status and Significance for Group Psychotherapy 10. A.C.R. Skynner An Experiment in Group Consultation with the Staff of a Comprehensive School 11. Henry P. Powers, Maria Victoria Acosta-Rua and Richard P. Vornbrock Terminating an Open-ended Therapy Group About the Authors

Editorial Reviews

It's amazing how quickly the gay zeitgeist changes. By the time this Terrence McNally adaptation hit theaters in 1997, the reality of the AIDS epidemic had been forever altered by the advent of the triple cocktail. And a mere five years later, in the the post-Ellen, post-Will & Grace, gays-everywhere era, even the film's low-key political subtext seems like an '80s anachronism. Yet the enduring strength of Love! Valour! Compassion! is its attention to character, to the complexities of a social set, and to the ways in which chance events can ripple across them, changing everything. Full of fine performances from the well-oiled Broadway cast (with Jason Alexander ably subbing for the absent Nathan Lane), the film doesn't exactly break free from its stage incarnation. But, boxed-in as it is, the film's characters seem real, and the simple push and pull of their interlocking friendships keeps the action moving. A willfully affirming answer to the self-hatred of The Boys in the Band a few decades earlier, the film does tend to wear its heart on its sleeve. But its fine performances, economical setting, and mournful warmth mark it as a superior effort -- superior not only to all those endless, by-the-books coming-out stories, but also to the slew of comedies that followed it in the separate subgenre of scripts that deal with the complexities of gay middle age.