Zero Patience

Directed by John Greyson

An immortal, unethical taxidermist researches "Patient Zero," the gay flight attendant allegedly responsible for bringing AIDS to North America, for a museum exhibit on contagious diseases, with help from the man's ghost.
Zero Patience is an audacious AIDS musical that turns the damaging myth of 'Patient Zero' into camp, satire and political argument. Not every joke or musical number lands, and the film can feel overstuffed, but John Greyson’s anger, invention and refusal of solemn respectability make it a genuinely distinctive piece of gay filmmaking.

Zero Patience

Directed by John Greyson

An immortal, unethical taxidermist researches "Patient Zero," the gay flight attendant allegedly responsible for bringing AIDS to North America, for a museum exhibit on contagious diseases, with help from the man's ghost.

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Zero Patience is an audacious AIDS musical that turns the damaging myth of 'Patient Zero' into camp, satire and political argument. Not every joke or musical number lands, and the film can feel overstuffed, but John Greyson’s anger, invention and refusal of solemn respectability make it a genuinely distinctive piece of gay filmmaking.