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1985 (2018)
This story tells about a different youth drama in which a young man lives in very difficult circumstances. That story began when a young man decided to return home for holidays and was struggling to reveal the harsh conditions of his conservative family. It is the harsh conditions of being a young man with AIDS. Perhaps things may change and the life of the conservative family turns to another strange turn.
13 June 1971, Pontiac, Michigan, USA
February 9, 1999 in Houston, Texas, USA
February 5, 1997 in Austin, Texas, USA
30 August 1963, Lowell, Massachusetts, USA
10 April 1983, San Francisco, California, USA
4 November 1983, Berkeley, California, USA
13 May 1981, Texas, USA
December 13, 2018
[I] appreciate that Tan embraces complexity, flaws, and compassion when he could have ignored them for a bow-tied catharsis.
December 05, 2018
The lessons being taught in 1985 are admirable, the performances top-notch, and the filmmaking stellar.
December 12, 2018
An immaculately drawn drama
December 19, 2018
Writer-director Yen Tan, expanding a same-subject short film, takes his tale slowly, letting the drama breathe and the cast essay "being" rather than "acting".
December 12, 2018
It's a beautifully acted film. In the dark days of the epidemic it would surely have been impossible to make a drama so balanced, so compassionately attuned to everyone's feelings.
June 28, 2018
All the performances are very good (though one might ask why no one has a regional accent), with stage-trained Smith providing a center of quiet intensity.
December 17, 2018
A touching film that becomes both an emotional requiem for a lost generation of gay men and a heartfelt declaration that things could only get better.
October 26, 2018
1985 feels like a missing minor classic from the decade that preceded the rise of the so-called New Queer Cinema.
March 16, 2018
It is a haunting elegy for a generation of gay men.
March 16, 2018
This is a realistic, discreet, yet exploratory film that earns its tears honestly and scrupulously.
October 23, 2018
This profoundly resonant, smartly understated black-and-white film greatly benefits from more than 30 years worth of sociosexual perspective that reminds us how much has changed, yet how much else has not.
October 25, 2018
A moving cinematic sketch of a HIV-infected man living through the height of the plague.
