MOVIE REVIEW: PARTING GLANCES

Bill Sherwood's romantic seriocomedy made a charming gay addition to the mid `80s Amerindie production boom. Charting 24 hours before two handsome young NYC lovers part (one leaving for a job abroad), the film has a sweet tenor somewhat compromised by the fact that its yuppie protagonists are far less interesting than one subsidary role: Steve Buscemi's marvelous, antic PWA/artist best-friend. Sherwood himself died of AIDS in 1990 at the age of 38.

-- Dennis Harvey

(1986, USA)
Director: Sherwood, Bill
Starring: John Bolger ; Richard Ganoung ; Adam Nathan

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