Common Threads: Stories from the Quilt
On the eve of 1987's Second National March on Washington for Lesbian and Gay Rights, surviving families and friends of people who have died of AIDS prepare panels to be added to a large-scale memorial quilt project. Drawing from the sea of names memorialized, director Robert Epstein focuses on the lives of six people. Alongside the intimate profiles offered, through news footage and interviews, Epstein puts the AIDS crisis in the larger context of social and government response to the disease.
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Cast
66 people
Dustin Hoffman
Narrator (voice)
Known for
Rain Man
Kung Fu Panda
Sara Lewinstein
Storyteller (Story Subject: Dr. Tom Waddell)
Also in
Lesbians: The Invisible Minority
Bobby McFerrin
Rob Epstein
Carol Baum
David Mandell
Storyteller (Story Subject: David Mandell Jr.)
Also in
Justine: Exotic Liaisons
Bill Couturié
Jeffrey Friedman
Lynn Johnston
Suzi Mandell
Storyteller (Story Subject: David Mandell Jr.)
Cindy Ruskin
Sallie Perryman
Storyteller (Story Subject: Robert Perryman)
Rob Epstein Director · Jeffrey Friedman Director Cindy Ruskin Writer
United States release December 1, 1989 · Produced in United States · Production New Yorker Films, Telling Pictures
Production
Sandollar Productions
Production
New Yorker Films
Production · Distribution
Telling Pictures
Production
United States
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Languages
Original language
English
Spoken on screen
English
Release dates
Italy · November 24, 1989
TV premiere
United States · December 1, 1989
Theatrical
Denmark
October 26, 1990 · Gay & Lesbian Film Festival
Germany
February 1, 1990 · Berlin International Film Festival
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