Prelude to a Kiss
A couple fall in love despite the girl's pessimistic outlook. As they struggle to come to terms with their relationship, something supernatural happens that tests it.
Norman René
Casts & Crew
Meg Ryan
Alec Baldwin
Ned Beatty
Kathy Bates
Patty Duke
Richard Riehle
Stanley Tucci
Sydney Walker
Rocky Carroll
Debra Monk
Ray Gill
Ward Ohrman
Annie Golden
Frank Carillo
Sally Murphy
Salli Richardson-Whitfield
Victoria Haas
Fern Persons
JoBe Cerny
Josette DiCarlo
Peter Lloyd
Richard C.W. Schutz
Lucina Paquet
Glendon Gabbard
Rob Riley
Jane Alderman
Larry Nazimek
Also Directed by Norman René
On Christmas Eve, a relentlessly cheerful woman escapes from the killers hired by her husband, and embarks on a series of strange encounters.
Longtime Companion follows the lives of a small circle of friends from the first mention of the disease in the New York Times in 1981. First referred to as "Gay-Related-Immune-Disorder," we watch the effect of the disease as it devastates the lives of our protagonists. Jumping between Manhattan and Fire Island, vignettes carry us from the it-couldn't-happen-to-me mentality of the early days of the disease to the invasive effect it has had on all of our lives, today. The title of the film comes from the New York Times' refusal to acknowledge homosexual relationships in their obituary section during this period. Instead, survivors were referred to as "Longtime Companions" of the deceased.