New York, 1971. There’s a party on the stage of the Weismann Theatre. Tomorrow the iconic building will be demolished. Thirty years after their final performance, the Follies girls gather to have a few drinks, sing a few songs and lie about themselves.
Tim Van Someren, Dominic Cooke
Director
Imelda Staunton
Sally Durant Plummer
Peter Forbes
Buddy Plummer
Janie Dee
Phyllis Rogers Stone
Philip Quast
Benjamin Stone
Tracie Bennett
Carlotta Campion
Gary Raymond
Dimitri Weismann
Jordan Shaw
Kevin
Fred Haig
Young Buddy
Josephine Barstow
Heidi Schiller
Bruce Graham
Roscoe
Dawn Hope
Stella Deems
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True crime media is notoriously obsessed with the “missing white woman” trope, and yet the vast majority of American murder victims are male, and well over half are people of color.
Moonlight is a film that will certainly be remembered for how it won Best Picture, but the movie itself should be known for its excellent representation of one of the most underrepresented groups in film: Black, gay men.
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The film reminds us to remember the people who had the courage and dignity that had made the world better, even when the memory was absent.