And The Films Played On: 16 Essential Movies About AIDS

From: Queerty

It’s My Party 

1996

Based on the death of famed architect and designer Harry Stein, It’s My Party reunited Olivia Newton-John with her Grease director, Randal Kleiser, who was also Stein’s ex-lover. Eric Roberts leads an all-star cast as Nick Stark, a gay man slowly losing his grip on life and reality. He throws a two-day party for friends and family with the intention of committing suicide at its end. Stark’s estranged lover, Brandon (Gregory Harrison) also arrives as an uninvited guest and is treated as such by Nick’s loved ones, who feel Brandon abandoned him at his most vulnerable.