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{{Use American English|date=January 2025}} {{Use mdy dates|date=August 2024}} {{Infobox film | name = Longtime Companion | image = Longtime Companion poster.jpg | caption = Film poster | director = [[Norman René]] | producer = Stan Wlodkowski<br />[[Lydia Dean Pilcher]]<small>(co-producer)</small> | writer = [[Craig Lucas]] | starring = {{Plainlist| * [[Stephen Caffrey (actor)|Stephen Caffrey]] * [[Patrick Cassidy (actor)|Patrick Cassidy]] * Brian Cousins * [[Bruce Davison]] * [[John Dossett]] * [[Mark Lamos]] * [[Dermot Mulroney]] * [[Mary-Louise Parker]] * [[Michael Schoeffling]] * [[Campbell Scott]]}} | music = Greg De Belles | cinematography = Tony C. Jannelli | editing = Katherine Wenning | distributor = [[The Samuel Goldwyn Company]] | released = {{Film date|1989|10|11|[[Mill Valley Film Festival]]|1990|01|21|U.S. Film Festival|1990|05|11|New York City}} | runtime = 100 minutes<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=longtimecompanion.htm |title=Longtime Companion |publisher=Box Office Mojo |date= |accessdate=2021-05-29}}</ref> | country = United States | language = English | budget = $3 million<ref name = "PowerGrid">{{cite web|url=http://powergrid.thewrap.com/project/longtime-companion|title=Longtime Companion - PowerGrid|work=thewrap.com|date=12 December 2014|access-date=August 23, 2015}}{{Dead link|date=March 2019 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> | gross = $4,609,953<ref name="PowerGrid"/> }} '''''Longtime Companion''''' is a 1989 American [[Romance film|romantic drama]] film directed by [[Norman René]] and starring [[Bruce Davison]], [[Campbell Scott]], [[Patrick Cassidy (actor)|Patrick Cassidy]], and [[Mary-Louise Parker]]. The first wide-release theatrical film to deal with the subject of [[HIV/AIDS|AIDS]], the film takes its title from the euphemism ''[[The New York Times]]'' used during the 1980s to describe the surviving same-sex partner of someone who had died of AIDS.<ref>cf. [https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=950DEFDB173DF937A25754C0A96F948260 Auctions], published July 14, 1989: "...Sam Wagstaff Jr., Mr. Mapplethorpe's longtime companion, who died of AIDS in 1987. Mr. Mapplethorpe died of AIDS in March."</ref>
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