Longtime Companion (1990)
Everybody dies of AIDS except Willy (Campbell Scott), Fuzzy (Stephen Caffrey) and Lisa (Mary Louise Parker, in a rare break from her career-defining tradition as the one who always dies a slow death from a terminal illness).
At the end of the film, Willy, Fuzzy (who's no longer fuzzy; he's shaved his beard, while Willy has grown a cheesy pornstache) and Lisa walk along the beach, reflecting on life before AIDS, and musing about what it would be like if there were a cure... and down the hill come hundreds and hundreds of men, all tanned, fit, happy and healthy. The three reunite with their long-gone friends — and you can't stop crying after the credits roll.
A beautiful, beautiful movie that captures the carefree, AIDS-free 1980s, the growing horror of this mysterious killer striking down young men in their prime, and the aching hope that this horror will someday be eliminated once and for all. Highly recommended.
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