Common Threads: Stories from the Quilt (1989)
79 min
On the eve of 1987's Second National March on Washington for Lesbian and Gay Rights, surviving families and friends of people who have died of AIDS prepare panels to be added to a large-scale memorial quilt project. Drawing from the sea of names memorialized, director Robert Epstein focuses on the lives of six people. Alongside the intimate profiles offered, through news footage and interviews, Epstein puts the AIDS crisis in the larger context of social and government response to the disease.
- Release date
- December 1, 1989
- Country of origin
- United States
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Cast
- Dustin Hoffman as Narrator (voice)
- Sara Lewinstein as Storyteller (story subject: Dr. Tom Waddell)
- David Mandell as Storyteller (story subject: David Mandell Jr.)
- Sallie Perryman as Storyteller (story subject: Robert Perryman)
- Vito Russo as Storyteller (story subject: Jeffrey Sevcik)
- Tracy Torrey as Storyteller (story subject: himself and David C. Campbell)
- Gregg Baker as Self - News Reporter (archive footage)
- Gary Bauer as Self - Policy Advisor to the President (archive footage)
- Tom Brokaw as Self - News Reporter (archive footage)
- James Curran as Self - Center for Disease Control (archive footage)
- Jerry Falwell as Self - Moral Majority Leader (archive footage)
- Bryant Gumbel as Self - News Reporter (archive footage)
- Rock Hudson as Self (archive footage)
- Cleve Jones as Self
- C. Everett Koop as Self - Surgeon General (archive footage)
- Larry Kramer as Self (archive footage)
- Suzi Mandell as Storyteller (story subject: David Mandell Jr.)
Crew
- Gregg Baker · Archive footage
- Gary Bauer · Archive footage
- Robert Bazell · Archive footage
- Kevin Boyle · Archive footage
- Rob Epstein · Director
- Jeffrey Friedman · Director
- Rob Epstein · Writer
- Jeffrey Friedman · Writer
- Cindy Ruskin · Writer
- Bill Couturié · Producer
- Rob Epstein · Producer
- Jeffrey Friedman · Producer
- Dolly Parton · Producer
- Bobby McFerrin · Composer
- Jean de Segonzac · Cinematographer
- Dyanna Taylor · Cinematographer
- Rob Epstein · Editor
- Jeffrey Friedman · Editor