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TITLE |
Roommates (1994) (TV Film) |
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DISABILITY |
AIDS General
Brain tumour |
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Randy Quaid
plays an ex-con on parole for bank robbery who got AIDS
from a blood transfusion. He's a rampant |
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heterosexual
who sees AIDS as "God's way of cleaning |
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house." He
lives in a half way house with a bunch of "fags". |
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And he's
about to get a new roomate. Eric Stolz is the |
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middle-class
Ivy league type who moves in. Of course you |
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know by now
that after a number of tussles each will learn |
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from the
other and come to understand what each is about. |
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The warden
of the place is a sort of referee and we don't see |
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The
performances are good, the cliches are ripe and we're |
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reminded of
what we already know. In a competition for the |
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biggest
cliche must be the pool game in which Stolz is seen |
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as a
greenback and wins hands down. |
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But it's
challenged by the heavy rainstorm in which Stolz and |
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Quaid choose
to discuss moral philosophy. |
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Quaid who
has been getting headaches severe enough to |
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bang his
head against the wall is referred to hospital by the |
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ever helpful
Stolz. A scan reveals he has a small brain |
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Notes
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