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Paul Monette: The Brink of Summer's End is a 1996 American biographical documentary film written and directed by Monte Bramer. The film is based on the life of gay writer and AIDS activist Paul Monette, who died from the disease in 1995.
Paul Monette: The Brink of Summer's End: Directed by Monte Bramer. With Judith Light, Robert Desiderio, Tom Hulce, Jonathan Fried. This documentary focuses on AIDS activist, novelist and film writer and National Book Award winner Paul Monette's life, from his childhood in Massachusetts up to his life in Hollywood and diagnosis and death from AIDS.
- (95)
- Documentary, Biography
- Monte Bramer
- 1996
Narrated by Linda Hunt, this documentary examines the life of the late author and gay rights activist Paul Monette. Born in 1945 to a well-off Massachusetts family, Monette grows up unable to accept his homosexuality, for years hiding it from his loved ones while struggling to develop as a writer.
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- Monte Bramer
- Judith Light
Paul Monette: The Brink of Summer's End 1997 1h 30m Documentary List 60% Tomatometer 5 Reviews Narrated by Linda Hunt, this documentary examines the life of the late author and gay rights...
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- Jonathan Fried
- Monte Bramer
- Documentary
Synopsis. A documentary on the beloved, late award-winning writer ("Borrowed Time," and "Becoming a Man") Paul Monette who, while fighting his own battle of survival with AIDS, became one of the ravaged voices for a generation of people afflicted with HIV.
PAUL MONETTE: THE BRINK OF SUMMER’S END. Winner of the 1997 Sundance Audience Award. Excerpt of Stephen Holden’s 1998 review in The New York Times: ”Go without hate, but not without rage; heal the world,” proclaimed Paul Monette, the author and gay activist who died of AIDS three years ago at the age of 49.
