Fresh
It can't be long before we see the Hollywood version.
Cath Clarke, Time Out
How to Survive a Plague
2012 · 1h 49m · Not Rated
Documentary, History
Directed by
David France
Overview
A story of two coalitions – ACT UP and TAG (Treatment Action Group) – whose activism and innovation turned AIDS from a death sentence into a manageable condition. Despite having no scientific training, these self-made activists infiltrated the pharmaceutical industry and helped identify promising new drugs, moving them from experimental trials to patients in record time.
Director and cast
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
98%
Tomatometer
Fresh
David France has made an absorbing film to document that moment of immense implosion, called How to Survive a Plague.
Stanley Kauffmann, The New Republic
Fresh
As this stirring, scrupulous doc reveals, the members of ACT UP fused the fervor of revolutionaries, the tenacity of trial lawyers, and the rage of the dispossessed to change the very shape of the epidemic.
Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly
Fresh
From a terrible epidemic comes a beautiful documentary.
Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune
Fresh
A raw history, often cluttered and sometimes repetitive but, when strategies fail along with immune systems, deeply affecting.
Rick Groen, Globe and Mail
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