1990
Sex was most conspicuous — and meaningful — when it disappeared from Longtime Companion. The inability of the film’s central couple to continue to connect sexually in the face of the AIDS epidemic and the multiple losses they suffered was one of the movie’s strongest themes.
Lovers Willie (Campbell Scott) and Fuzzy (Stephen Caffrey), who start out with a lovingly depicted physical relationship, find it increasingly hard to connect sexually while dealing with the illness and death of friends and fears for their own health. One night, in a scene that shows them lying next to each other in bed but not touching, Fuzzy asks Willie, “What do you think happens when we die?”
“We get to have sex again,” Willie answers.
Longtime Companion was groundbreaking as well in that Bruce Davison was nominated for the Academy Award for best supporting actor for his role in the film as David, a man caring for his lover who has AIDS.
Hotness: 3
Romance: 5
Significance: 10
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