Common Threads: Stories from the Quilt

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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.

Date: 12/01/1989

Rating: 7.2

Cast: Dustin Hoffman, Sara Lewinstein, David Mandell, Suzi Mandell, Sallie Perryman, Vito Russo, Tracy Torrey, Gregg Baker, Gary Bauer, Robert Bazell, Kevin Boyle, Edward Brandt, Tom Brokaw, Bobbi Campbell, David C. Campbell, Marcus A. Conant, James Curran, Bolton Eckert, Jerry Falwell, Virginia Fedosky, Emil Guillermo, Bryant Gumbel, Tim Haas, Robert Hager, Charles Howard, Rock Hudson, Cleve Jones, C. Everett Koop, Larry Kramer, Roger Gail Lyon, David Mandell Jr., Kevin McCullough, Andrea Mitchell, Eddie Murphy, Mark Ostfield, Marcia Pally, John Palmer, Hampton Pearson, Robert Perryman, John Politano, Josie Politano, Randy Ray, Robert Ray, Ricky Ray, Ronald Reagan, Neil Schram, Heidi Schulman, Jeffrey Sevcik, Elizabeth Taylor, Tom Waddell, Gary Walsh, James Watkins, Linda Yee

Dustin Hoffman