Game show dreams and desperate road trips when love meant fighting the clock.
An anthology film and friendship tale that takes place in St. Louis in the late 1980s during the height of the AIDS crisis. The story follows a man who has just found out one of his friends is HIV positive — a death sentence that, back then, usually meant the person had about twelve months to live. The main character goes on a game show in order to raise money for a car to drive his friend to Mexico where he can receive a popular, but later proven ineffective, treatment for the virus.
Direction
Steadman captures 1987 St. Louis with lived-in authenticity.
Acting
Ulrich carries quiet devastation in every game show smile.
Director
Dan Steadman
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Laetrile, the Mexico treatment sought here, was a notorious 1980s medical fraud peddled as hope to dying patients.
The 73-minute runtime mirrors the compressed urgency of the twelve-month prognosis—no time to waste.
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