A fantastic awsome movie........
Added 9/12/2009
I was very lucky one night while crusing the tube........I came on this movie in progress. I missed the begining......once I started watching, I couldn't stop. I laughed, I cried, I got mad and I sang along. What an amazing movie......I was just taken away by all the stars in this movie, all who did an outstanding job....how did this movie make out then out on DVD so quietly? And as for Nick, I understood how and why he did it. What you choose to do with your body is your choice and yours alone.
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It jumped the shark when Margaret Cho walked in....
Added 7/19/2008
Actually, it may have done it way before that. I don't like to give negative reviews but this movie is out of control. Somebody should have reigned these folks in, or, well, put a stop to it. Even on paper it just sounds insulting to the gay community and to AIDS victims. See, movies like Longtime Companion and Torch Song Trilogy were great and moving films. They also worked well because the casts were relatively unknown and were actually "acting", - playing roles. To create a big "party" of well known B (C or D) performers/actors just makes the entire premise silly and overbearing.
I guess the idea of Marlee Matlin and Margaret Cho came from someone who realized that each gay man has an asian girlfriend and a deaf girlfriend. I guess Cho is a good example of why this whole thing is so over the top. Wouldn't this be the kind of movie Cho would make fun of? She looks like she's phoning it in or just being plain condescending.
Eric Roberts is a very talented actor, really, I think he is, (check out Star 80) but...as a gay man that we are supposed to feel sorry for? He falls into the same trap as many other performances in the movie. It just comes across condescending and kind of... I don't know.... put upon.
More importantly, the story itself kind of backfires on their intentions. A gay man dying of Aids, plans to off himself but throw a party before he does it? And this makes him a....hero? No. It kind of makes him self posessed, self involved and a very confused martyr. The characters in Longtime Companion, for example, were all trying to fight to stay alive for themselves and the people around them. They were trying to make sense out of a tragedy that they did not deserve.
It just got to be so bad that I thought Olivia Newton John was going to break out into song somewhere in the film. I wouldn't have been surprised.
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Warning: NOT a Comedy
Added 6/12/2008
The reviews here say it all, but it's listed in the Laugh Out Loud section for the Pride month DVD sale. If you are looking to laugh, you're looking in the wrong place. I cried pretty hard at this one.
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Thoughtfull AIDS movie
Added 12/19/2007
I love this movie about a man sharing his last days of his life with his friends and ex-boyfriend.
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Emotional , Moving Film
Added 7/9/2007
It's My Party came out a few years ago. I love the story line even though it is a bit emotional and moving. The actors do a very wonderful job with a very intense story line. I added this film to my home theatre library because it is a classic and I consider an essential to have. I highly recommend it!
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