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8/08/2020

The Normal Heart (2014)

This movie concerns the first 5 years or so of the AIDS crisis in America. We follow Ned Weeks and a small group of friends who found the Gay Mens Health Crisis hotline and who work to get funding for medical research. The story is heartbreaking and frustrating, but the movie is not.

Though Mark Ruffalo and Matt Bomer give it their all, the movie is simply boring. It's basically cry and yell and cry and yell. Julia Roberts purses her lips, Taylor Kitsch tries to do something other than look pretty, and Jim Parsons may as well slip in a "Bazinga" or two.

C+

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