Roommates

Roommates (1994)

The story of a macho straight and a well-educated gay man who have to share an apartment at a half-way house for aids-patients. Slowly they become friends.

Date of release
1994-05-30
TMDB
4.5 / 10 (8)
Runtime
1h 40m
Genres
Drama, TV Movie
Director
Alan Metzger

Casting

Interesting facts

Roommates is a 1994 American television film written by Robert W. Lenski and directed by Alan Metzger. The film stars Randy Quaid, Eric Stoltz, Charles Durning, Elizabeth Peña, Frank Buxton and Jill Teed. It aired on NBC on May 30, 1994. The film was inspired by a true story of two men dying from AIDS.

Production

Executive producer Michael Filerman and NBC knew the movie was going to be a hard sell to advertisers, and NBC felt like the controversial subject matter would require having feature actors in it who normally don't do television, to "give it a sense of more import". So feature actors Randy Quaid and Eric Stoltz were cast in the lead roles.

The movie was shot in just 18 days, but NBC was hesitant to give it an airdate during a sweeps period. In an interview with TV critics in January, Quaid said he didn't know why the airdate was put off; the movie "may not be the most popular thing to look at, or the most entertaining or exciting action piece, but it has real issues and deals with them realistically".

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