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| Cast overview, first billed only: | |||
| Gena Rowlands | ... | Katherine Pierson | |
| Ben Gazzara | ... | Nick Pierson | |
| Sylvia Sidney | ... | Beatrice McKenna | |
| Aidan Quinn | ... | Michael Pierson | |
| D.W. Moffett | ... | Peter Hilton | |
| John Glover | ... | Victor DiMato | |
| Sydney Walsh | ... | Susan Maracek | |
| Terry O'Quinn | ... | Dr. Redding | |
| Bill Paxton | ... | Bob Maracek | |
| Cheryl Anderson | ... | Christine | |
| Christopher Bradley | ... | Todd | |
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Sue Ann Gilfillan | ... | Nurse Lincoln |
| Don Hood | ... | Dr. Gilbert | |
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Barbara Hey | ... | Meredith |
| Scott Jaeck | ... | Phil | |
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Set in the mid-eighties Michael Pierson, a young gay man, is struck with AIDS in the prime of his life. He's forced to be open about the disease and his homosexuality for the first time with his co-workers (he's a successful lawyer) and family. He, and the people around him, must face up to the inevitablity of his death and the disease that's killing him. "An Early Frost" was many people's first look at an AIDS victim as a human being instead of a statistic. Written by Susan Southall <stobchatay@aol.com>
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11 November 1985 (USA) See more »Also Known As:
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Over 20 years after this movie was made, D.W. Moffett played Aidan Quinn's brother in an episode of Quinn's show The Book of Daniel (2006). Quinn says on the commentary track for this film that when the producers of "The Book of Daniel" were casting the brother role, they asked Quinn if he knew Moffett. Quinn told them he did, and recommended Moffett for the role, but deliberately omitted the fact that the last time they had worked together, they had played lovers for fear that the producers would then not want to cast them as brothers. See more »Frequently Asked Questions
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This film was a very courageous undertaking by all who where involved, however the love between the two men was not believable. The emotions flowed, but the body language told me otherwise.