Starring- Ed Wolf, Paul Boneberg, Daniel Goldstein, Guy Clark, Eileen Glutzer
Run Time- 1 hr 27 min.
Critics Review- "The most gripping war movie you'll ever see this year, We Were Here tells first-hand the story of how AIDS attacked San Francisco, killing more than 15,000. Whole peer groups were happy, healthy, and then dead in months."- Stephen Cole "Globe and Mail"
Rotten Tomatoes Rating- Critics- 100% [CERTIFIED FRESH] Audience- 86%
Out of a possible 5 stars- 5 stars
My Review-
This has to be one of the most moving documentaries I have seen on this list, it also sort of reminded me of the film And the Band Played On. What made this documentary so moving is that they interviewed people who lived through AIDS in San Francisco, who lost friends, many of them and still found the time to help out others and open business to help people who were HIV positive or had AIDS. It was hard to watch at times upon hearing the men and women talk about their experiences and having to remember the people they lost is a hard think to do. I have learned about AIDS and HIV in the past from various movies, and in school, but to hear it first hand from people that were is just heartbreaking. It is amazing how the people in the documentary were able to do so much, even when some them were losing friends or found themselves HIV positive. What I also found interesting is that one of them worked with Harvey Milk, even before he was running for mayor of San Francisco and to see that even before the virus broke out they were trying to make a difference was really interesting. There is not much I want to give away about this, because I would like everyone to watch this, since it is very interesting to watch especially from first hand accounts. I suggest that this should be seen by everyone, and see how good this documentary is, and how it shows up something that we have never seen before from that time when HIV and AIDS took the lives of friends and loved ones of the people above.
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