An Early Frost
Director: John Erman
Genre: Television movie, Gay Themed, LGBT, Family Drama, Gay, Gay Interest, Drama
Year: 1985
Country: United States of America
Starring: Aidan Quinn, Terry O'Quinn, Ben Gazzara, Sylvia Sidney, D.W. Moffett, Gena Rowlands, John Glover, Bill Paxton
An Early Frost is a 1985 TV movie, and the first major film to deal with the topic of HIV/AIDS. It was first broadcast on the NBC television network on November 11, 1985. It was directed by John Erman, screenplay by Ron Cowen and Daniel Lipman, story by Sherman Yellen and starred Aidan Quinn as Michael Pierson, a Chicago attorney who goes home to break the news that he is homosexual and has AIDS to his parents, played by Ben Gazzara and Gena Rowlands.
Tom Shales of the Washington Post called An Early Frost "the most important TV movie of the year."
The film was number one in the Nielsen ratings during the night it aired, garnering a 23.3 share (the film outperformed a San Francisco 49ers-Denver Broncos game broadcast on ABC and a Cagney & Lacey episode on CBS). The film was nominated for 14 Emmy Awards and won three, including Outstanding Writing For a Movie or Miniseries for Cowen and Lipman for their teleplay. Gena Rowland, Ben Gazzarra, Aiden Quinn, Sylvia Sidney and John Glover were all nominated for their performances, as was John Erman for his direction. The film was nominated for the Golden Globe Award for Best Television movie and won Sylvia Sidney the Golden Globe Award
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