Review – And the Band Played On

It shouldn’t come as much of a surprise that this made-for-HBO movie falls into some of the same holes as the book of the same name by Randy Shilts. The problems and solutions are too simple (such as laying such a large chunk of it at Gaetan Dugas’ doorstep) and the issues all too black and white (for example, Robert Gallo probably isn’t as big a villain as he’s made out to be here). But it’s still a fairly compelling drama, especially by TV movie standards. My opinion may be a little colored by a childhood interest in epidemiology, but I do still like a good movie about fatal diseases. Mildly amusing