[redwitch]

I agree. It was a very good movie and McConaughey and Leto deserved their Oscars. Having lived in San Francisco throughout the early days of AIDS ("the Gay disease" back then), I well remember the buyers' clubs that were created for patients -- they really were the first to create cocktails that prolonged life for some. That the FDA worked so hard to shut down these clubs rather than working with them was beyond the understanding of most who had friends dying from AIDS. At least the clubs were prolonging lives, which is more than could be said of the drugs the FDA allowed and AZT was known to kill just as much as AIDS did, just quicker and not quite as painfully. It was wrong and ugly.