- Date: October 11, 1989
- Type: Movie
This Movie plays Things That Dreams Are Made Of performed by The Human League
Longtime Companion is a 1989 film with Bruce Davison, Campbell Scott, Patrick Cassidy, and Mary-Louise Parker. The first wide-release theatrical film to deal with the subject of AIDS, the film takes its title from the words The New York Times used to describe the surviving same-sex partner of someone who had died of AIDS during the 1980s. Longtime Companion chronicles the first years of the AIDS epidemic as seen through its impact on several gay men and the straight female sister of one of them. The film is split into several sections identified by dates.