Dallas
1985. Electrician and sometimes rodeo bull rider Ron Woodroof lives hard, which
includes heavy smoking, drinking, drug use (primarily cocaine) and casual sex.
He is a stereotypical redneck: racist and homophobic. While in the hospital on
a work related injury, the doctors discover and inform him that he is HIV+, and
that he will most-likely die within thirty days. Ron is initially in angry
denial that he would have a disease that only "faggots" have, but
upon quick reflection comes to the realization that the diagnosis is probably
true. He begins to read whatever research is available about the disease, which
at this time seems to be most effectively treated by the drug AZT. AZT,
however, is only in the clinical trials stage within the US. Incredulous that
he, as a dying man, cannot pay for any drug which may save or at least prolong
his life, he goes searching for it by whatever means possible. It eventually
leads him to Mexico and a "Dr." Vass, an American physician whose...
At the
height of his career, Charles Dickens meets a younger woman who becomes his
secret lover until his death.
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