It's My Party

United States

1996

110 Min

Color

1.85:1

English

Currently 3.7/5 Stars.
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EXEC Robert Fitzpatrick, Gregory Hinton

PROD Randal Kleiser, Joel Thurm

CAST Eric Roberts, Lee Grant, Gregory Harrison, Marlee Matlin, George Segal, Margaret Cho, Bruce Davison, Roddy McDowall, Olivia Newton-John, Bronson Pinchot, Devon Gummersall, Paul Regina, Steven Antin, Dimitra Arliss, Christopher Atkins, Dennis Christopher, Ron Glass, Nina Foch, Greg Louganis, Victor Love, Lou Liberatore, Peter Murnik, Felix Pire, Joel Polis, Jon David Casey, Sally Kellerman, Robert Fitzpatrick, Talia Paul, Eugene Robert Glazer, David Knapp, Mike Pointer, David Medina

MUSIC Basil Poledouris

Sundance (Premieres), Berlinale (Panorama)

Synopsis

“You won’t leave me, will you?” Nick asks Brandon shortly after revealing to him the results of his last blood test for HIV. “I don’t want to die alone.” In spite of Brandon’s protestations, the two soon find the love they had shared for many years in ruins. One year after their breakup, Nick is confronted with a ravaged immune system and a CT Scan and lab values which, along with his worsening forgetfulness, clenches the diagnosis of Progressive Multifocal Leukoencephalopathy (PML) – a condition he has seen claim his friends and one which he vows will not take him. Due to the aggressive nature of the disease, he has only a few days of conscious life remaining. His plan, he announces to family and “extended family,” is to voluntarily end his life himself before the disease renders him unrecognizable to those he loves and he, in turn, is unable to recognize them. Uninvited to the farewell party, Brandon’s presence is greeted with jeers from those who see him as having abandoned Nick is his time of greatest need. –IMDb

Director

Randal Kleiser

Randal Kleiser has been an internationally known film director since the release of his first feature, Grease, the most successful movie musical ever made. Other features include The Blue Lagoon with Brooke Sheilds, Summer Lovers starring Peter Gallagher and Daryl Hannah, Grandview U.S.A. with Jamie Lee Curtis, Flight of the Navigator, featuring the first use of digital morphing in a motion picture; Honey, I Blew Up the Kid and White Fang. In London, he directed the critically acclaimed comedy, Getting It Right, starring Lynn Redgrave, Helena Bonham Carter, Jane Horricks and Sir John Guilgud. In 1996 he wrote and directed It’s My Party, starring Eric Roberts, Gregory Harrison, Lee Grant, Bruce Davison and Marlee Matlin. As a writer-producer, he was responsible for the surfing classic, North Shore for Universal Pictures. He also directed the thriller, Shadow of Doubt with Melanie Griffith and Tom Berenger Working in 70mm 3-D, he directed Honey, I Shrunk the Audience, which is currently… read more

Randal Kleiser has been an internationally known film director since the release of his first feature, Grease, the most successful movie musical ever made. Other features include The Blue Lagoon with Brooke Sheilds, Summer Lovers starring Peter Gallagher and Daryl Hannah, Grandview U.S.A. with Jamie Lee Curtis, Flight of the Navigator, featuring the first use of digital morphing in a motion picture; Honey, I Blew Up the Kid and White Fang. In London, he directed the critically acclaimed comedy, Getting It Right, starring Lynn Redgrave, Helena Bonham Carter, Jane Horricks and Sir John Guilgud. In 1996 he wrote and directed It’s My Party, starring Eric Roberts, Gregory Harrison, Lee Grant, Bruce Davison and Marlee Matlin. As a writer-producer, he was responsible for the surfing classic, North Shore for Universal Pictures. He also directed the thriller, Shadow of Doubt with Melanie Griffith and Tom Berenger Working in 70mm 3-D, he directed Honey, I Shrunk the Audience, which is currently drawing record crowds at the Disney Theme Parks in Anaheim, Orlando, Tokyo, and Paris. His television movies include The Boy in the Plastic Bubble with John Travolta; the Emmy Award-winning The Gathering, and Dawn: Portrait of a Teenage Runaway. As a freshman at USC, he appeared in George Lucas’ first student film Freiheit. Kleiser’s award winning Master’s thesis film, Peege launched his professional career. He has taught a graduate production workshop at USC and Master Directing Classes for European students at film festivals in Deauville and Sarlat, and Malaga. Kleiser serves as a judge on the Student Awards for the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, and as chairman of the Academic Subcommittee for the Directors Guild of America, he inaugurated a videoconferencing program to connect film classes with working directors. Working with the Graphics Lab at USC’s Institute for Creative Technologies, Kleiser has co-invented a digital Cinerama-like process called Vistarama HD. He is developing Silver Metal Lover for Dimension Pictures, is currently in post-production with an original movie musical shot on virtual sets, Red Riding Hood starring Joey Fatone and Lainie Kazan, and is in post-production on Lovewrecked starring Amanda Bynes, shot in the Caribbean last July. —IMDb

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