Roy Cohn/Jack Smith (1995)

ALL 08/04/1995 (en) Drama 90 Min
  • Release
    08/04/1995
  • Production
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  • Original title
    Roy Cohn/Jack Smith
  • Original language
    en
  • Production Cost
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Overview

When Jill Godmilow’s documentary Roy Cohn/Jack Smith premiered at the 1994 Toronto International Film Festival, the number of AIDS-related deaths was reaching an all-time high in the United States (over 270,000). In New York City, the epicenter of the AIDS epidemic, many artists and filmmakers were grappling with the disease. While Broadway was hosting the second part of Tony Kushner’s award-winning play Angels in America, downtown New Yorkers were fondly recalling another recent production, Ron Vawter’s one-man show Roy Cohn/Jack Smith, in which the actor, who died of AIDS in April 1994, performed two monologues, first as Cohn, the conservative lawyer, and secondly, as Smith, the flamboyant experimental filmmaker—both of whom died of AIDS-related causes in the late 1980s.

  1. Jill Godmilow

    Director

  2. Story

  3. Merril Stern

    Editor



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Casts

  1. Ron Vawter

    Roy Cohn / Jack Smith

  2. Coco McPherson

    Chica

Full Cast & Crew

Casts : 2 , Crews : 16

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Roy Cohn/Jack Smith (1995) 90 Min

ALL 08/04/1995 (en)
Drama
  • Release 08/04/1995
  • Production
  • Original title Roy Cohn/Jack Smith
  • en
  • Revenue0.00

Overview

When Jill Godmilow’s documentary Roy Cohn/Jack Smith premiered at the 1994 Toronto International Film Festival, the number of AIDS-related deaths was reaching an all-time high in the United States (over 270,000). In New York City, the epicenter of the AIDS epidemic, many artists and filmmakers were grappling with the disease. While Broadway was hosting the second part of Tony Kushner’s award-winning play Angels in America, downtown New Yorkers were fondly recalling another recent production, Ron Vawter’s one-man show Roy Cohn/Jack Smith, in which the actor, who died of AIDS in April 1994, performed two monologues, first as Cohn, the conservative lawyer, and secondly, as Smith, the flamboyant experimental filmmaker—both of whom died of AIDS-related causes in the late 1980s.

  1. Jill Godmilow

    Director

  2. Story

  3. Merril Stern

    Editor

  4. James Schamus, Ted Hope, Marianne Weems

    Producer