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Common Threads: Stories from the Quilt

1989 7.2 (17 votes) 1h 20m

Genres

History Documentary

Production Companies

Sandollar Productions
New Yorker Films

Common Threads: Stories from the Quilt

Overview

On the eve of 1987's Second National March on Washington for Lesbian and Gay Rights, surviving families and friends of people who have died of AIDS prepare panels to be added to a large-scale memorial quilt project. Drawing from the sea of names memorialized, director Robert Epstein focuses on the lives of six people. Alongside the intimate profiles offered, through news footage and interviews, Epstein puts the AIDS crisis in the larger context of social and government response to the disease.

Key Crew

Director: Rob Epstein, Jeffrey Friedman

Writer: Rob Epstein, Jeffrey Friedman, Cindy Ruskin

Director of Photography: Jean de Segonzac, Dyanna Taylor

Producer: Bill Couturié, Rob Epstein, Jeffrey Friedman

Top Cast

Dustin Hoffman

Dustin Hoffman

Narrator (voice)

Sara Lewinstein

Storyteller (Story Subject: Dr. Tom Waddell)

David Mandell

Storyteller (Story Subject: David Mandell Jr.)

Suzi Mandell

Storyteller (Story Subject: David Mandell Jr.)

Sallie Perryman

Storyteller (Story Subject: Robert Perryman)

Vito Russo

Vito Russo

Storyteller (Story Subject: Jeffrey Sevcik)

Tracy Torrey

Storyteller (Story Subject: Self and David C. Campbell)

Gregg Baker

Self - News Reporter (archive footage)

Videos

Common Threads Trailer

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