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  • 1997
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  • Fine Line Features
  • 1 h 48 m
  • 1997
  • R
  • Fine Line Features
  • 1 h 48 m

Summary This film adaptation of Terrence McNally's Tony Award winning play focuses on eight gay men as they spend three summer holiday weekends together at a rural country house. What transpires is a tender, humorous and poignant story about love, valour and compassion among friends. (New Line Cinema)

Directed By: Joe Mantello

Written By: Terrence McNally

  • 1997
  • R
  • Fine Line Features
  • 1 h 48 m
  • 1997
  • R
  • Fine Line Features
  • 1 h 48 m

Love! Valour! Compassion!

Metascore Mixed or Average Based on 20 Critic Reviews
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Summary This film adaptation of Terrence McNally's Tony Award winning play focuses on eight gay men as they spend three summer holiday weekends together at a rural country house. What transpires is a tender, humorous and poignant story about love, valour and compassion among friends. (New Line Cinema)

Directed By: Joe Mantello

Written By: Terrence McNally

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Metascore
Mixed or Average Based on 20 Critic Reviews
59
55% Positive
11 Reviews
35% Mixed
7 Reviews
10% Negative
2 Reviews

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Metascore
Mixed or Average Based on 20 Critic Reviews
59
55% Positive
11 Reviews
35% Mixed
7 Reviews
10% Negative
2 Reviews

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90
The best thing the filmmakers did was to pull a cast out of the stage productions. Importantly, the actors convey a sense of history and comfort with each other.
By Ron Wells FULL REVIEW
80
Yet the pride and sympathy McNally brings to his characters reminds us how far gay film has progressed from the long, self-lacerating whine of "The Boys in the Band".
By Ella Taylor FULL REVIEW
75
There are endearing and powerful moments which thankfully overshadow the occasional clichéd passages.
By David Sterritt FULL REVIEW
63
Most of the cast (along with director Joe Mantello) have been recruited from the stage play, and they all do a fine job of trimming their performances for the screen.
By Rick Groen FULL REVIEW
50
Even the nasty zingers here seem tiresomely windy. [16May1997 Pg 02.D]
By Mike Clark FULL REVIEW
50
Yet, the problem goes beyond the film's staginess (although there's plenty of that to go around). It could even have something to do with the delicate difficulties involved in the successful transfer of stage camp to the more intimate level of film.
By Marjorie Baumgarten FULL REVIEW
10
Love! Valour! Compassion!, an adaptation of Terrence McNally's Tony Award-winning play, which has piano music and exclamation points to spare, is excruciatingly predictable, creatively inane and almost offensive in its depiction of gay characters.
By Desson Thomson FULL REVIEW

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Production Company Krost/Chapin Productions
Release Date May 16, 1997
Duration 1 h 48 m
Rating R
Genres
Tagline Eight men. One summer. Figure it out.
Website http://www.flf.com/lvc/index.html
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Awards

Deauville Film Festival
• 1 Nomination

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