3 Needles
127 minutes, 2005
Fri. Oct 13, 7:15PM, Sequoia
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Sun. Oct 15, 12:15PM, Sequoia
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In English, Mandarin, Xosa, French, and Afrikaans with English subtitles • With epic scope and an extraordinary cast, Thom Fitzgerald's tripartite tale forgoes headline sensationalism to focus on the ways different communities and families in varying corners of the world cope with AIDS. Villagers in a Chinese ethnic minority farming town begin dying after donating blood to a spurious government contractor; a mother (Stockard Channing) in French Canada, who has just lost her husband to lung cancer, fears she will not be able to support her HIV-positive son (Shawn Ashmore); and three missionary nuns (Olympia Dukakis, Sandra Oh, Chloë Sevigny) in South Africa are faced with a moral dilemma when children in the local village are orphaned by the disease. While the film's images belie any possibility of an easy happy ending to the AIDS crisis, its stories are humorous as well as heart wrenching. 3 Needles personalizes a global epidemic while investigating the root geopolitical causes of its international reach. — J. Preissel
Director: Thom Fitzgerald
Producer: Bryan Hofbauer
Screenwriter: Thom Fitzgerald
Cinematographer: Thomas M. Harting
Editor: Susan Shanks
Cast: Shawn Ashmore, Stockard Channing, Olympia Dukakis, Lucy Liu, Sandra Oh, Chloë Sevigny
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