Common Threads: Stories from the Quilt

Common Threads: Stories from the Quilt (1989)

On the eve of 1987's Second National March on Washington for Lesbian and Gay Rights, surviving families and friends of people who have died of AIDS prepare panels to be added to a large-scale memorial quilt project. Drawing from the sea of names memorialized, director Robert Epstein focuses on the lives of six people. Alongside the intimate profiles offered, through news footage and interviews, Epstein puts the AIDS crisis in the larger context of social and government response to the disease.

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  • Release Date: 1989-12-01
  • Runtime: 1h 20min
  • Directors: Jeffrey Friedman, Rob Epstein.

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  • Trailer

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    Cast

    • Dustin Hoffman

      Narrator (voice)

    • Sara Lewinstein

      Storyteller (Story Subject: Dr. Tom Waddell)

    • David Mandell

      Storyteller (Story Subject: David Mandell Jr.)

    • Suzi Mandell

      Storyteller (Story Subject: David Mandell Jr.)

    • Sallie Perryman

      Storyteller (Story Subject: Robert Perryman)

    • Vito Russo

      Storyteller (Story Subject: Jeffrey Sevcik)

    • Tracy Torrey

      Storyteller (Story Subject: Self and David C. Campbell)

    • Gregg Baker

      Self - News Reporter (archive footage)

    • Gary Bauer

      Self - Policy Advisor to the President (archive footage)

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