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Some of My Best Friends Are…

Directed by Mervyn Nelson

A dramatic exposé unfolding the lives of gays gathering at a NYC bar on Christmas Eve.
Set largely inside a New York gay bar, Some of My Best Friends Are... offers a valuable snapshot of gay life at the beginning of the 1970s. Its dialogue and melodrama can feel theatrical and dated, but the film’s willingness to show friendship, loneliness, conflict and community without pretending gay men were all alike gives it lasting historical interest.

Some of My Best Friends Are…

Directed by Mervyn Nelson

A dramatic exposé unfolding the lives of gays gathering at a NYC bar on Christmas Eve.
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Set largely inside a New York gay bar, Some of My Best Friends Are... offers a valuable snapshot of gay life at the beginning of the 1970s. Its dialogue and melodrama can feel theatrical and dated, but the film’s willingness to show friendship, loneliness, conflict and community without pretending gay men were all alike gives it lasting historical interest.

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