Biography: Ron Vawter |
An actor of stage and screen, Ron Vawter was best known for essaying the parts of Roy Cohn and Jack Smith, a pair of prominent but wildly different homosexuals, both of whom died of AIDS in the 1980s. Having gained experience in performing in small... more
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Cast: Jonathan Demme
Tags: Docudrama Biopic Gay & Lesbian Films Drama Art Film
Length: 90min
Based on a popular one-man play and filmed in a single day at the theatrical space the Kitchen in 1993, this avant-garde drama contrasts the lives of two famous homosexuals, both of whom died of AIDS in the 1980s. Both men are played by original...
Cast: Jason Robards, Jr. Tom Hanks Denzel Washington Antonio Banderas Joanne Woodward Mary Steenburgen Howard Shore Tak Fujimoto
Tags: Drama Gay & Lesbian Films Message Movie Medical Drama Courtroom Drama
Length: 125min
At the time of its release, Jonathan Demme's Philadelphia was the first big-budget Hollywood film to tackle the medical, political, and social issues of AIDS. Tom Hanks, in his first Academy Award-winning performance, plays Andrew Beckett, a talented...
Tags: Courtroom Drama Crime Drama Gay & Lesbian Films Drama
Length: 95min
Tom Kalin directed this cool and aloof black-and-white study of the infamous Leopold and Loeb case, a case told before in two previous films -- Rope and Compulsion. In 1924, in Chicago, Nathan Leopold Jr. and Richard Loeb, two 18-year-olds, kidnapped...
Cast: Werner Klemperer David Lynch Joan Cusack Peter Gallagher Mikhail Baryshnikov
Tags: Musical Horror Comedy Horror Comedy Parody/Spoof
Length: 111min
Flamboyant Broadway renaissance man Peter Sellars was the director of The Cabinet of Dr. Ramirez. This freewheeling musical horror spoof isn't meant to be taken seriously, so don't be fooled by those Karloffian trappings. Ron Vawter plays the title...
sex, lies, and videotape (1989)
Cast: James Spader Steven Soderbergh Laura San Giacomo
Tags: Drama Marriage Drama Erotic Drama
Length: 99min
Steven Soderbergh kickstarted the independent film movement of the 1990s with this landmark drama about the tangled relationships among four people and a video camera. John (Peter Gallagher) is an unscrupulous, self-centered yuppie lawyer with a...
The Communists Are Comfortable (And Three Other Stories) (1985)
Cast: Willem Dafoe
Length: 75min
This is an undistinguished, avant-garde film by director, editor, and narrator Ken Kobland that may confuse most viewers at best, and turn off others at worst. Ostensibly expressing a post-liberal depression, there is long monolog of an apparently...
Cast: Will Patton
Tags: Drama
Length: 71min
A couple's relationship unravels and comes apart at the seams, leaving no room for psychological mending of any kind in this unremittingly negative film about King Blank (Ron Vawter) and Queenie Blank (Rosemary Hochschild). If viewers were meant to...
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