3 Needles
2006
Thom Fitzgerald
★★½
129
Fitzgerald also scripted this three-part opus, which attempts to humanize the tragedy of the AIDS epidemic by portraying individuals from different cultures who become HIV-positive. The scenarios follow Chinese farmers who are infected by tainted needles as they give blood, a Montreal porn actor, and three missionaries who come to Africa to save the souls of those afflicted with the virus. Raw and poignant in its best moments, but also slow moving, unevenly paced, and not as emotionally involving as it ought to be.
Shawn Ashmore, Stockard Channing, Tanabadee Chokpikultong, Olympia Dukakis, Lucy Liu, Sandra Oh, Ian Roberts, Chloë Sevigny, Gary Farmer
Canadian
Drama
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