Pushing Dead

Directed by Tom E. Brown

When a struggling writer, HIV positive for 20+ years, accidentally deposits a $100 birthday check, he is dropped from his health plan for earning too much. In this new era of sort-of universal care, can he take on a helpless bureaucracy or come up with $3000 a month to buy meds on his own?
Pushing Dead is a smart, darkly funny AIDS-era comedy-drama about an HIV-positive writer whose insurance problem suddenly threatens access to medication. James Roday Rodriguez gives a terrific performance, and Tom E. Brown balances anger, absurd bureaucracy and gallows humour unusually well.

Pushing Dead

Directed by Tom E. Brown

When a struggling writer, HIV positive for 20+ years, accidentally deposits a $100 birthday check, he is dropped from his health plan for earning too much. In this new era of sort-of universal care, can he take on a helpless bureaucracy or come up with $3000 a month to buy meds on his own?

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Pushing Dead is a smart, darkly funny AIDS-era comedy-drama about an HIV-positive writer whose insurance problem suddenly threatens access to medication. James Roday Rodriguez gives a terrific performance, and Tom E. Brown balances anger, absurd bureaucracy and gallows humour unusually well.