Matthew McConaughey

Jennifer Garner

Jared Leto

Denis O'Hare

Steve Zahn

Michael O'Neill

Dallas Roberts

Griffin Dunne

Kevin Rankin

Donna DuPlantier

Deneen Tyler

J.D. Evermore

Ian Casselberry

Noelle Wilcox

Bradford Cox

Rick Espaillat

Lawrence Turner

Lucius Falick

James DuMont

Jane McNeill

Don Brady

Matthew Thompson

Tony Bentley

Sean Boyd

Rachel Wulff

Neeona Neal

Scott Takeda

Jonathan Tabler

Joji Yoshida

Carl Palmer

Martin Covert

Douglas M. Griffin

David Lichtenstein

Craig Borten

Henry Frost

Arthur Smith

Adam Dunn

Juliet Reeves London

Jeanine Hill

Sarah Eilts

Lily Virginia Filson

Steffie Grote

Tony Notargiacomo

Cassian Elwes

Zev Foreman

Rachel Winter

John Paino

Holly Wiersma

Logan Levy

Jean-Marc Vallée

Joe Newcomb

Robbie Brenner

Rich Delia

Javiera Varas

Nicolas Chartier

Martin Pensa

David L. Bushell

Paul Schnee

Kerry Barden

Bart Mueller

Kurt Swanson

Roger Johnson

Robert Covelman

Luis Lopez DeVictoria

Parry Creedon

Gus Coto

Selina van den Brink

Alex Terzieff

Jessica Lee

Nicolas Marion

Hunter Wert

Martin Pinsonnault

Kat Percy

Scot Middleton

Paul Col

Samuel Gagnon-Thibodeau

Ian D. Navran

Rick Davis

Jose Figueroa-Baez

Anne Marie Fox

Leonard Suwalski

Leonard Reynolds III

Jeanmarie Murphy-Burke

Dick Hansen

Mireille Morin

Sidney Brisco

Anton Fischlin

Simon Meilleur

Mona Medawar

A. Welch Lambeth

John R.C. Davis

Katie Riggs

Jennifer Kamrath

David Dorretto

Kevin Lum

Justin Coulter

Pierre Thériault

Renaldo Jackson

Diana Ascher

Richard Ball

Linda Gardar

Claire Pochon

Kolie Wegner

Brian Evans

Jo Caron

Andrew Wert

Les Arceneaux

Melanie Deforrest

Robin Mathews

Adruitha Lee

Yves Bélanger

Marc Cote

Melisa Wallack

Mark C. Stevens

Nathan Ross

Urs Hirschbiegel

Michael Sledd

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Evolution Independent

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Focus Features

United States of America

**A powerful film about the will to survive and the coldness of big pharma**

Matthew McConaughey gives an amazing performance as Ron Woodroof the homophobic, hard partying electrician/rodeo cowboy who becomes HIV positive due to some poor lifestyle choices.  Ostracised by his friends for having what was at the time considered a gay disease he goes on a damaging bender before discovering he has full blown AIDS. 

When faced with a death sentence and ineffective drugs approved by the FDA, he heads to Mexico to source and import medication not available in the US, and decides to sell it to help himself and others while making a tidy profit.

Jared Leto is magnetic as Rayon, a drug addicted gay man who becomes Woodroof's business partner and eventually his friend.  Both actors lost a significant amount of weight for the role, which lends real authenticity and gravity to the film.

Made on a shoestring budget, with little to no special effects, this film is all about the story and the performances. The battles with the FDA trying to circumvent red tape, and get people medication they desperately need is frustrating and all too realistic.  Big pharma calls the shots, manipulates data and statistics and keeps peddling their toxic expensive medication, while Woodroof battles for the rights to treat himself with medicine he knows works.

It is a David and Goliath story, a look at an era when AIDS was virtually untreatable and running out of control.  One man's battle against bureaucracy told with charm and panache. 

8/10

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